Rūdakī Khorāsāni
The first poet of note to compose poems in the “New Persian,” written in Arabic alphabet, widely regarded as the Father of Persian poetry. He created the concept of the…
Ferdowsi the Poet that Captured Iran’s past History
Hakeem Abol-Ghasem Ferdowsi Tousi was a dehqān (“landowner”), in 940 deriving a comfortable income from his estates, in the village of Paj, near the city of Tus, in the Khorasan…
Ferdowsi’s Poetry in Shahnameh
Ferdowsi: “Shahnameh is not a fairytale, there are secrets that need to be solved.Documented history is full of horrific atrocities, beheadings, eye gauging, burnings, flaying alive, etc. but Ferdowsi’s historical…