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The Best Threads Of Literature, History & Geography
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Arabic Poetry is the earliest work of Arabic literature, and it is usually written down in the Arabic language either by Arabs or non-Arabs. Unlike Persian Poetry, which is as old as Avesta ( the sacred book of Zoroastrians), knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century AD. Arabic...
Many years ago, when for the first time I saw the romance of Khosrow-O-Shirin written by Nezami-ye Ganjavi (1158-1262), I wondered why he had called it "Khosrow and Shirin" and not "Farhad and Shirin". Of course, in my elementary school books I had read about the Sassanid king,...
A poem is a composition usually written in verse. Poems rely heavily on imagery, precise word choice, and metaphor; they may take the form of measures consisting of patterns of stresses (metric feet) or of patterns of different-length syllables (as in classical prosody); and they...
**A Mythological Glance at Demons in Ancient Iranian Literature**
A Mythological Glance at Demons in Ancient Iranian Literature
The Book of Kings (Shahnameh) has it that during the rule of the legendary king of Persian, Jamshid, demons worked as engineers and architects to build bathhouses, bridges and houses. As one can understand...
We have few literary remains from the ancient Persians. Most of these consist of the royal inscriptions of the Achaemenian kings, notably Darius I (522-486 BC) and his son