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8 unusual facts about Persian Literature


Aziz Bagh

It was built in 1899 by the Persian and Urdu poet Aziz Jang Vila in what is described as an Indo-German style.

Cubic function

In the 11th century, the Persian poet-mathematician, Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), made significant progress in the theory of cubic equations.

Friedrich von Bodenstedt

He took the opportunity of his proximity to Persia to study Persian literature, and translate and publish in 1851 a volume of poetry under the fanciful title, Die Lieder des Mirza Schaffy (English trans. by E. d'Esterre, 1880).

Government High School for Boys

The school has a library with about 20,000 books, including collections of science, fiction, and rare Persian books.

Mehmet Niyazi

Niyazi was appointed a teacher at the local Tatar school in 1906, lecturing in Ottoman History, Ottoman Language, Poetry and Prose, Persian Literature, and Kalam.

Petrus Alphonsi

This work is a collection of oriental tales of moralizing character, translated from Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit.

Shantia

This word has been used in Persian poems for describing Imam Ali, and today is used as a family name or boy surname in this language.

Stouts Hill

Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne.


Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi

The subjects taught at this school consisted of, in alphabetic order, Arabic language, Arithmetic, Cookery, Geography, History, Law, Music, Persian literature, and Religion, to name but some.

George of Izla

Mihramgushnasp received his education in Zoroastrian religious rituals and Persian literature, and by the age of seven he learned to recite the Yashts and perform the Barsom.

Gorani language

There exists also dozen or more long epic or romantic Mathnawis, mostly translated by anonymous writers from Persian literature including: Bijan and Manijeh, Khurshid-i Khawar, Khosrow and Shirin, Lalyi o Majnoon, Shirin and Farhad, Haft Khwan-i Rostam and Sultan Jumjuma.

Hamid Arasly

He was the author on works focused on the relation between Azerbaijani literature with Persian, Turkish, Uzbek and Turkmen literature.


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Bahman Sholevar

At ages 18 and 19 he translated William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land into Persian, and these still are renowned as two classics of translation in modern Persian literature.

Persian Speculative Art and Literature Award

However, after that the group invited some well-known and notable authors, critics and translators of the Persian literature to judgment committee, among these were: Média Kashigar, Reza Alizade, Mitra Eliati, Arash Hejazi, Peyman Ghasemkhani, Shahram Eghbal Zadeh, Vida Eslamie and Mehdi Yazdani Khoram.

Qeysar Aminpour

Aminpour attended the University of Tehran and studied Persian literature under supervision of Dr. Shafi’i Kadkani.