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The Iskandarnameh (Book of Alexander) is a poetic production in the Alexander Romance tradition authored by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (d. 1209) that describes Alexander the Great as an idealized hero, sage, and king. More uniquely, he is also a seeker of knowledge who debates with great philosophers Greek and Indian philosophers, one of ...
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.
Mokhtarnameh (Persian: مختارنامه, lit. ' The Book of Mokhtar ') is an Iranian historical epic television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mukhtar, a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led an islamic revolution against the Umayyads in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna.
Khosrow and Shirin (Persian: خسرو و شیرین) is the title of a famous tragic romance by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), who also wrote Layla and Majnun. It tells a highly elaborated fictional version of the story of the love of the Sasanian king Khosrow II for the Christian Shirin , who becomes queen of Persia .
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (Persian: محمدرضا شفیعی کدکنی, also Romanized as "Mohammad–Reza Shafi'i Kadkani") (born 10 October 1939) is an Iranian writer, poet, literary critic, editor, and translator. [1] Kadkani was born in Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan. He is currently professor of literature at Tehran University.
Afsaneh (Persian: افسانه) is a poem by Nima Yooshij, published in December 1923 which is considered as the manifesto of She'r-e Nimaa'i. Afsaneh was very new in various aspects, including the way it was expressed and the texture, and led to the emergence of a new school of poetry in Iranian poetry. [1] Nima Yoshij dedicated this poem to ...
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.
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.