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Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35][12][13][36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]
Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. A scene from the Shahnameh describing the valour of Rustam. Persian literature[ a ] comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It spans over two-and-a-half millennia.
Forugh Farrokhzad. Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; [ 2 ] 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. [ 3 ] She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, [ 4 ] feminist author. [ 5 ][ 6 ] Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32.
The Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه, romanized: Šāhnāme, lit. 'The Book of Kings', modern Iranian Persian pronunciation [ʃɒːh.nɒː.ˈme]), [a] also transliterated Shahnama, [b] is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.
Sometimes, he used to sing besides writing, and during the time, he used to close all doors and leave them open while on the go. [1] His poetry is believed to have strong influences across Afghanistan, Iran, Turan an India. Gani Kashmiri is known for his Persian poetry that reflects the rich cultural and intellectual heritage of Kashmir.
Anvari (1126–1189) [citation needed], full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud (Persian: اوحدالدین علی ابن محمد انوری) was a Persian poet. [1] Anvarī was born in Abivard (now in Turkmenistan) and died in Balkh, Khorāsān (now in Afghanistan). [2] He studied science and ...
Bahram Gur listens as Dilaram enchants the animals. " Hasht-Bihisht " (Persian: هشت بهشت, lit. "The Eight Paradises") is a famous poem written by Amir Khusrow around 1302 AD. The poem is based on the Haft Paykar by Nizami, written around 1197 AD, which in turn takes its outline from the earlier epic Shahnameh written by Firdausi around ...
She'r-e Nimaa'i ( Persian: شعر نیمایی, lit. 'Nima poetry') is a school of Modernist poetry in Iran that is derived from the literary theory of Nima Yooshij, a contemporary Iranian poet. Nima Yooshij revolutionized the stagnant atmosphere of Iranian poetry with the influential poem Afsaneh, which was the manifesto of She'r-e Nimaa'i.