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Junayd Shirazi. Qasem-e Anvar. Saif Farghani (d. 1348) Imadaddin Nasimi. Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, Sultan of Bengal who jointly penned a Persian poem with Hafez. Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din. Shah Nimatullah Wali. Maghrebi Tabrizi. Nur Qutb Alam, Bengali religious scholar.
The bulk of surviving Persian literature, however, comes from the times following the Muslim conquest of Persia c. 650 CE. After the Abbasids came to power (750 CE), the Iranians became the scribes and bureaucrats of the Islamic Caliphate and, increasingly, also its writers and poets.
18 maj 2020 · Poetic diction, the use of symbolism, metaphor, and simile are freely used in all forms of Persian literature from medical treatises to histories but formal poetry was considered the height of expression and, although there were many other great poets contributing to the tradition, the following ten are considered the greatest.
14 maj 2020 · Following Rudaki, Persian literature was developed by the great poets who came after him and is exemplified in the literary masterpiece of the Shahnameh (the Persian Book of Kings) by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (l. c. 940-1020 CE). The Shahnameh was Ferdowsi's life's work, thought to have been composed between 977-1010 CE.
Poetry is such an integral part of the Persian literary tradition that it would be futile to attempt to teach the Persian language without touching on some key poetic works and themes. On this page you will find links to a variety of Persian poets, starting with the classics, with more modern poets soon to be added.
12 lut 2024 · Persian literary works written between c. 522 BCE and c. 330 BCE were destroyed when Alexander the Great burned the city of Persepolis in 330 BCE, including the great library. Who is the greatest Persian Poet?
Persian literature - Classical poetry: The classical Persian poets and theoreticians saw the aim of their art primarily as the continuation of Arabic poetry in another language. For them, poems that were not written according to the rules of Arabic prosody did not count as serious poetry.
