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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.
Iranian literature. Iranian literature, or Iranic literature, [ 1] refers to the literary traditions of the Iranian languages, developed predominantly in Iran and other regions in the Middle East and the Caucasus, eastern Asia Minor, and parts of western Central Asia and northwestern South Asia. [ 2][ 3][ 4] These include works attested from as ...
v. t. e. 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.
Farhad carves an image of Shirin in the mountain. Farhād ( Middle Persian: Frahāt, Persian: فرهاد) is a famous character in Persian literature and Persian mythology. The story of his love with Shirin is one of the most famous love stories in Persian culture. The most important work about him is Khosrow and Shirin by Persian poet Nezami ...
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. Salman Savaji.
Statue in Tehran Statue of Ferdowsi in Tus by Abolhassan Sadighi. Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025), [2] also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (فردوسی), [3] was a Persian [4] [5] poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian ...
Ancient Persian literature. The study of Avestic and ancient Persian literature in the west began in the 18th century with scholars investigating Zoroastrian texts brought in from Bombay, India. It was the Frenchman Anquetil Duperron who first translated the Vendidad in 1759, followed by works of Sir William Jones and Sylvestre de Sacy, who ...
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (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.