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In Tajikistan, the format and pictorial aspects of short stories and novels were taken from Russian and other European literature. Some of Tajikistan's prominent names in Persian literature are Golrokhsar Safi Eva, [34] Mo'men Ghena'at, [35] Farzaneh Khojandi, [36] Bozor Sobir, and Layeq Shir-Ali.
This is a list of short story Iranian writers either born in Iran or holding Iranian citizenship, also Non-Iranian Persian short story writers and short story writers of Iranian descent. Mohammad ali Jamal-Zadeh Sadegh Hedayat Bozorg Alavi Hossein Sa'edi Samad Behrangi Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Mahmoud Dowlat Abadi Houshang Golshiri Reza Baraheni ...
Another technique featured in the One Thousand and One Nights is an early example of the "story within a story", or embedded narrative technique: this can be traced back to earlier Persian and Indian storytelling traditions, most notably the Panchatantra of ancient Sanskrit literature.
The Blind Owl (1936; Persian: بوف کور, Boof-e koor, listen ⓘ) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th-century Iran. Written in Persian, it is narrated by an unnamed pen case painter, who addresses his murderous confessions to a shadow on his wall that resembles an owl. His confessions do not follow a linear ...
The story of Layla and Majnun was known in Persia as early as the 9th century. Two well known Persian poets, Rudaki and Baba Taher, both mention the lovers. [18] [19] Although the story was known in Arabic literature in the 5th century, [20] it was the Persian masterpiece of Nizami Ganjavi that
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 ...
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.
Khosrow Parviz's first sight of Shirin, bathing in a pool, in a manuscript of Nezami's poem. This is a famous moment in Persian literature. The Sasanian shah Khosraw and Courtiers in a Garden, Page from a manuscript of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, late 15th-early 16th century.