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Also Known As New Persian literature • Modern Persian literature • Farsī literature

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Sulṭān Muḥammad: “The Feast of Sada” in the Shāh-nāmeh
Saʿdī: Bustān miniature
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Mirza Ghalib
Mirza Ghalib
Indian poet
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Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
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Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Sadeq Hedayat.
Sadeq Hedayat
Iranian author
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Muhammad ʿAli Jamalzadah
Iranian author
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
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Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
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Bozorg Alavi
Iranian author
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Kemalpaşazâde
Turkish historian
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Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli
Turkish author
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Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Persian poet
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Anvarī
Persian poet
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
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ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī
Turkish poet
Khāqānī
Khāqānī
Persian poet
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Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
Syrian-born theologian, mathematician, and jurist
Nezami
Neẓāmī
Persian-language poet
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Nefʾi
Ottoman poet

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