Iranian literature

E520883

literature national literature

Iranian literature is the body of written and oral works produced in Persian and other languages of Iran, encompassing a rich tradition of poetry, prose, and philosophical writing from ancient times to the modern era.

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Label	Occurrences
Iranian literature canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literature ⓘ national literature ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ
culturalSignificance	major component of Iranian cultural identity ⓘ
hasGenre	Sufi literature ⓘ classical Persian poetry ⓘ drama ⓘ memoir ⓘ modernist Persian poetry ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ religious exegesis ⓘ social realist fiction ⓘ travel writing ⓘ
hasPart	Arabic literature in Iran ⓘ Armenian literature in Iran ⓘ Assyrian literature in Iran ⓘ Azerbaijani literature in Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Baluchi literature ⓘ Gilaki literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurdish literature ⓘ Luri literature ⓘ Mazandarani literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Talysh literature in Iran ⓘ Turkmen literature in Iran ⓘ
hasTradition	courtly patronage of poets ⓘ didactic moral tales ⓘ mystical allegory ⓘ oral storytelling ⓘ strong poetic tradition ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Pahlavi era NERFINISHED ⓘ Qajar era NERFINISHED ⓘ Safavid era NERFINISHED ⓘ medieval period ⓘ post-1979 period ⓘ pre-Islamic era ⓘ
includesForm	court literature ⓘ didactic poetry ⓘ epic poetry ⓘ folk tales ⓘ historical chronicles ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ mystical literature ⓘ oral literature ⓘ philosophical writing ⓘ poetry ⓘ prose ⓘ religious writing ⓘ
influencedBy	Arabic literature ⓘ Greek philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian literature ⓘ Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian mythology NERFINISHED ⓘ Shiism ⓘ Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoroastrianism NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Arabic ⓘ Armenian NERFINISHED ⓘ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED ⓘ Azerbaijani ⓘ Baluchi ⓘ Gilaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurdish ⓘ Luri NERFINISHED ⓘ Mazandarani NERFINISHED ⓘ Persian ⓘ Turkmen NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableAuthor	Ahmad Shamloo NERFINISHED ⓘ Attar of Nishapur NERFINISHED ⓘ Ferdowsi NERFINISHED ⓘ Forough Farrokhzad NERFINISHED ⓘ Hafez NERFINISHED ⓘ Jalal Al-e Ahmad NERFINISHED ⓘ Jami NERFINISHED ⓘ Nima Yooshij NERFINISHED ⓘ Nizami Ganjavi NERFINISHED ⓘ Omar Khayyam NERFINISHED ⓘ Rumi NERFINISHED ⓘ Saadi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadegh Hedayat NERFINISHED ⓘ Simin Daneshvar NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Bustan NERFINISHED ⓘ Conference of the Birds NERFINISHED ⓘ Divan of Hafez NERFINISHED ⓘ Gulistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Masnavi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shahnameh NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blind Owl NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Greater Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod	ancient times to present ⓘ

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Iranian studies → studies → Iranian literature ⓘ