Persian literature

E79604

cultural heritage literary tradition national literature

Persian literature is the body of poetic and prose works written primarily in the Persian language, renowned for its rich mystical, romantic, and epic traditions that have deeply influenced the broader Islamic and world literary heritage.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Persian literature canonical	19
Divan poetry	1
Persian Divan poetry	1
Persian poetry	1
Persian prosody	1

Statements (96)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural heritage ⓘ literary tradition ⓘ national literature ⓘ
hasCanonicalStatus	major canon of world literature ⓘ
hasCulturalCenter	Afghanistan ⓘ Greater Iran ⓘ Iran ⓘ Tajikistan ⓘ
hasGoldenAge	10th century ⓘ 11th century ⓘ 12th century ⓘ 13th century ⓘ 14th century ⓘ
hasHistoricalPeriod	Classical Persian literature ⓘ Modern Persian literature ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Caucasian literatures ⓘ Chagatai literature ⓘ Islamic literature ⓘ Mughal court literature ⓘ Ottoman Turkish literature ⓘ South Asian literature ⓘ Urdu literature ⓘ world literature ⓘ
hasLanguageStage	Persian language ⓘ surface form: Classical Persian Middle Persian language ⓘ surface form: Middle Persian Western Persian ⓘ surface form: New Persian
hasMajorForm	poetry ⓘ prose ⓘ
hasModernDevelopment	modernist poetry ⓘ novel ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor	Ahmad Shamlu ⓘ Attar of Nishapur ⓘ Bidel Dehlavi ⓘ Ferdowsi ⓘ Forough Farrokhzad ⓘ Hafez ⓘ Jami ⓘ Nezami Aruzi ⓘ Nima Yooshij ⓘ Nizami Ganjavi ⓘ Omar Khayyam ⓘ Rumi ⓘ Saadi ⓘ Sadegh Hedayat ⓘ Sana'i ⓘ
hasNotableGenre	Sufi treatise ⓘ court poetry ⓘ didactic poetry ⓘ epic poetry ⓘ ghazal ⓘ historical chronicle ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ masnavi ⓘ mystical poetry ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ prose romance ⓘ qasida ⓘ romantic epic ⓘ rubaiyat ⓘ
hasNotableWork	Bustan ⓘ Conference of the Birds ⓘ Divan of Hafez ⓘ Gulistan ⓘ Khosrow and Shirin ⓘ Leyli and Majnun ⓘ surface form: Layla and Majnun Masnavi ⓘ surface form: Masnavi-ye Ma'navi Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ⓘ Shahnameh ⓘ Vis and Ramin ⓘ
hasPredecessor	Middle Persian literature ⓘ Sassanian literature ⓘ
hasReligionContext	Islam ⓘ Sufism ⓘ Zoroastrianism ⓘ
hasScript	Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Arabic script Perso-Arabic script ⓘ surface form: Persian alphabet
hasTheme	Sufism ⓘ divine love ⓘ ethics ⓘ fate and destiny ⓘ heroism ⓘ human love ⓘ kingship ⓘ mysticism ⓘ philosophy ⓘ wine symbolism ⓘ
hasTradition	epic literature ⓘ mystical literature ⓘ romantic literature ⓘ
hasTranslationImpact	translated widely into European languages ⓘ
usedAs	administrative language literature ⓘ court literature ⓘ literary lingua franca in the Islamic world ⓘ
writtenInLanguage	Persian language ⓘ

Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Islamic world → hasCulturalContribution → Persian literature ⓘ

Turkish literature → influencedBy → Persian literature ⓘ

Shahnameh → literaryTradition → Persian literature ⓘ

Ferdowsi → movement → Persian literature ⓘ

Ferdowsi → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

Persians → culturalHeritage → Persian literature ⓘ

Nedim → literaryTradition → Persian literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Divan poetry

Fuzuli → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

Masnavi → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

motaqareb metre → adaptedIn → Persian literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Persian prosody

motaqareb metre → hasCulturalSignificanceIn → Persian literature ⓘ

Rostam → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

Persian culture → hasPart → Persian literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Persian poetry

Molana → culturalSignificanceIn → Persian literature ⓘ

Nizami Ganjavi → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

Abjad numerals → usedIn → Persian literature ⓘ

Iranian mythology → influenced → Persian literature ⓘ

Persianate world → influencedBy → Persian literature ⓘ

Khudi → influences → Persian literature ⓘ

Ottoman Divan literature → relatedTo → Persian literature ⓘ

this entity surface form: Persian Divan poetry

Shah → hasCulturalSignificanceIn → Persian literature ⓘ

Dakhni poets → influencedBy → Persian literature ⓘ

Nima Yooshij → region → Persian literature ⓘ