Knowra New Persian New Persian New Persian is the literary form of Persian that emerged after the Arab conquest of Iran and came to be written in the Arabic script. It developed from Middle Persian while incorporating substantial Arabic vocabulary.
Middle Persian : The Iranian language used in the Sasanian Empire and recorded in scripts including Pahlavi. New Persian developed from this earlier stage of the language.
Iranian languages : A branch of the Indo-Iranian languages that includes Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, and Ossetian. New Persian belongs to this wider language family.
Arabic loanwords in Persian : Words of Arabic origin incorporated into Persian vocabulary, often through religious, administrative, and scholarly contact. Their adoption expanded New Persian’s vocabulary without changing its Iranian grammatical core.
Rudaki : A ninth- and tenth-century Persian poet associated with the Samanid court and often called a founder of classical Persian poetry. His surviving poetry demonstrates New Persian’s early literary reach.
Persianate world : A transregional cultural sphere shaped by Persian language, literature, and courtly traditions. New Persian became a shared literary medium across this far-reaching cultural sphere.
Arab conquest of Iran : The seventh-century conquest that brought the Sasanian Empire under Muslim Arab rule. The conquest reshaped institutions and language contact as New Persian took form.
Persian language : A Western Iranian language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, with a long literary history. New Persian is the historical literary form from which later Persian varieties descend.
Persian morphology : The system of word formation in Persian, including suffixes, compounds, and verb forms. Its Iranian grammatical patterns distinguish New Persian from Arabic despite extensive borrowing.
Daqiqi : A tenth-century Persian poet who composed an early version of the story of Zoroaster for an epic project. His verses became part of the epic tradition later continued by Ferdowsi.
Classical Persian literature : The body of Persian literary writing produced from the tenth century through the early modern period. New Persian provided the language for its major poetic and prose traditions.
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