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Sassanid king, Bahram Gur is a great favourite in Persian tradition and poetry. Depiction of Nezami's "Bahram and the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion", Khamsa , mid-16th century Safavid era. A manuscript from Nizami's Khamsa dated 1494, depicting Muhammad 's journey from Mecca to the Dome of the Rock to heaven .
Distinguished scholars of Persian such as Gvakharia and Todua are well aware that the inspiration derived from the Persian classics of the ninth to the twelfth centuries produced a ‘cultural synthesis’ which saw, in the earliest stages of written secular literature in Georgia, the resumption of literary contacts with Iran, “much stronger ...
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.
Siyāsatnāmeh (Persian: سیاست نامه, lit. ' Book of Politics ' [ 1 ] ), also known as Siyar al-mulûk ( Arabic : سيرالملوك , lit. ' The Lives of Kings ' ), is the most famous work by Nizam al-Mulk , the founder of Nizamiyyah schools in medieval Persia and vazier to the Seljuq sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah .
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐 , Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, [1] [2] is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
Historical and linguistic studies in literature related to the New Testament. [127] History of India, as Told by its Own Historians [128] The Muhammadan Period. A collection of translations of medieval Persian chronicles based on the work of English historian Henry Miers Elliot. [129] Edited by British Indologist John Dowson (1820–1881). [130]
Persian riddles occur in several different literary forms, and it is helpful to trace the history of the Persian riddle through these forms. It is assumed that folk-riddles circulated in Persian from early times, and riddles are prominent in Persian romances set in earlier, pre-Islamic times, perhaps indicating the earlier popularity of the form. [4]
Makhzan ol-Asrar or Makhzan al-Asrar (Persian: مخزنالاسرار, means: The Treasury of Mysteries) is the title of a famous Mathnawi by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209). Makhzan ol-Asrar is the first poem collection in the main and best known work of Nizami Ganjavi called Khamsa of Nizami and one of the prominent examples ...