Father of Persian verse : Rudaki and his poetry

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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 Persia...

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Main Author: Tabatabai, Sassan, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Persian
Published: Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2010
Series:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
Subjects:
Rūdakī, > active 10th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Rūdakī, > active 10th century > Translations into English.
Quatrains, Persian > History and criticism.
Quatrains, Persian > Translations into English.
Electronic books.
poetry.
Poetry.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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
  • Ruba'siyat.

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