26 Facts About Persian literature

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For example, Rumi, one of the best-loved Persian literature poets, born in Balkh or Wakhsh, wrote in Persian literature and lived in Konya, at that time the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia.

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Not all Persian literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians or Iranians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included.

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Works of the early era of Persian literature poetry are characterized by strong court patronage, an extravagance of panegyrics, and what is known as ??? ???? "exalted in style".

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4.

Nucleus of the collection is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian literature book called Hazar Afsanah, a collection of ancient Indian and Persian literature folk tales.

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5.

Biggest Persian literature dictionary is Dehkhoda Dictionary byAli-Akbar Dehkhoda.

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6.

Only 4 dictionaries of Persian literature were compiled in Iran between the 10th and 19th centuries, while more than 66 were produced in India.

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7.

Persian literature was the official court language of the empire, and for some time, the official language of the empire.

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8.

Persian literature became the language of the nobility, literary circles, and the royal Mughal courts for hundreds of years.

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9.

Persian literature's translations have had a great impact on numerous modern Swedish writers, among them Karl Wennberg, Willy Kyrklund and Gunnar Ekelof.

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10.

An important movement in modern Persian literature centered on the question of modernization and Westernization and whether these terms are synonymous when describing the evolution of Iranian society.

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Such inspirations did not mean blindly copying Western models but, rather, adapting aspects of Western Persian literature and changing them to fit the needs of Iranian culture.

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12.

Saraj was not the first such publication in the country, but in the field of journalism and Persian literature it launched a new period of change and modernization.

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13.

In time, the Kabul publication turned into a stronghold for traditional writers and poets, and modernism in Dari Persian literature was pushed to the fringes of social and cultural life.

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14.

Persian literature was interested in modern poetry and wrote a few poems in a more modern style with new aspects of thought and meaning.

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15.

Some of Tajikistan's prominent names in Persian literature are Golrokhsar Safi Eva, Mo'men Ghena'at, Farzaneh Khojandi, Bozor Sobir, and Layeq Shir-Ali.

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16.

Persian literature is well known for his works on Rudaki and Sufi literature.

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17.

Persian literature did not follow the traditionalists, nor did he advocate the new.

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18.

Nima Yushij is considered the father of modern Persian literature poetry, introducing many techniques and forms to differentiate the modern from the old.

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Transformation brought about by Nima Youshij, who freed Persian literature poetry from the fetters of prosodic measures, was a turning point in a long literary tradition.

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20.

Persian literature's artistry was not confined to removing the need for a fixed-length hemistich and dispensing with the tradition of rhyming but focused on a broader structure and function based on a contemporary understanding of human and social existence.

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21.

Persian literature is considered the founder of Sepid poetry according to Behbahani.

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Persian literature's has expanded the range of traditional Persian verse forms and produced some of the most significant works of Persian literature in the 20th century.

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Persian literature is one of the pioneers of free verse in Persian literature, particularly of modern style epics.

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24.

Persian literature uses simple, lyrical language and is mostly inspired by the political atmosphere.

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25.

Persian literature is the most successful of those poets who in the past four decades have tried hard to find a synthesis between the two models of Ahmad Shamloo and Nima Youshij.

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In 1990s a progressive evolution called Postmodern Ghazal begun in the Persian literature poetry leading to the modern poetry that changed the balancing principle of rhythm and rhyme of the traditional Persian literature poetry, as did in the Free Verse poetry following the rhythm of natural speech.

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