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Currently, English-Persian dictionaries of Manouchehr Aryanpour and Soleiman Haim are widely used in Iran. Also highly regarded in the contemporary Persian literature lexical corpus are the works of Dr. Mohammad Moin. The first volume of Moin Dictionary was published in 1963.
The earliest surviving literary works in an Iranian language are that of the religious texts of the Avesta, written in Avestan, an Old Iranian sacred language.The oldest part of these are the Gathas (𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁, Gāθā, "hymn"), that are a collection of hymns believed to be composed by Zoroaster, the reformer of the ancient Iranian religion and the founder of Zoroastrianism, dating to ...
The influence of Persian literature in Western culture is historically significant. In order to avoid what E.G. Browne calls "an altogether inadequate judgment of the intellectual activity of that ingenious and talented people" (E.G.Browne, p4), many centers of academia throughout the world today from Berlin to Japan have permanent programs for Persian studies for the literary heritage of Persia.
Middle Persian literature is the corpus of written works composed in Middle Persian, that is, the Middle Iranian dialect of Persia proper, the region in the south-western corner of the Iranian plateau. Middle Persian was the prestige dialect during the era of Sasanian dynasty. It is the largest source of Zoroastrian literature.
Simple English; سنڌي; Slovenčina ... Pages in category "Persian literature" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not ...
Persian for a long time was the language of literature from Bengal to Constantinople, and the Golestan was known and studied in much of Asia. In Persian-speaking countries today, proverbs and aphorisms from the Golestan appear in every kind of literature and continue to be current in conversation, much as Shakespeare is in English.
Muhammad al-Bukhari Persian Islamic Scholar (810–870) (محمد البخاری) Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج) Shahid Balkhi (ابوالحسن شهید بن حسین جهودانکی بلخی) Hanzala Badghisi (حنظله بادغیسی) Muhammad ibn Wasif, poet (محمد بن وصیف) Abu Hafs Sughdi, poet (ابوحَفْص ...
2 Persian literature of the 20th century. 3 Writers outside Iran. 4 Contemporary writers. ... English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide ...