Father of Persian Verse : Rudaki and his Poetry / / Sassan Tabatabai.

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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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2016
©2016
Year of Publication:2010
2016
Language:English
Series:Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
Physical Description:1 online resource (135 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.