Father of Persian Verse : Rudaki and his Poetry /
Abu 'Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara. He is widely regarded as "the father of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in New Persian lang...
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| Language: | English Persian |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The poetry of Rudaki
- Elegies
- Panegyric poems
- Poems of complaint
- Meditations on life, death and destiny
- Love and its afflictions
- Nature poems
- Wine poems
- Rubāʻiyāt.