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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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Persian
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.