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The 60 pages that link to Persian literature, each with the reason it gives.

• Samanid EmpireNarrower topic: The Samanid court helped create conditions for Persian literature’s later expansion.

• Persian gardensNarrower topic: Persian poets repeatedly used gardens as settings for love, power, and renewal.

• Omar KhayyamNarrower topic: Khayyam wrote within a Persian poetic tradition that long predates English interest in his verses.

• RumiNarrower topic: Rumi’s Persian-language works belong to this literary tradition.

• RadifNarrower topic: Radif is a distinctive convention within Persian poetic practice.

• Sufi poetryNarrower topic: Persian literary conventions shaped some of Sufi poetry’s most influential works.

• Shah Ismail INarrower topic: Persian remained a major language of administration and court culture under Ismail’s dynasty.

• HeratNarrower topic: Herat’s poets and patrons contributed works that circulated throughout Persian-speaking societies.

• Nizami GanjaviNarrower topic: Nizami’s romances became central works in this literary tradition.

• Amir KhusrauNarrower topic: Khusrau wrote within Persian literary forms while adapting them to an Indian courtly setting.

• Iranian national identityNarrower topic: Literature gives shared language and historical memory durable forms across generations.

• Mahmud of GhazniNarrower topic: Mahmud’s court supported Persian poets and strengthened the language’s prestige.

• Muhammad IqbalNarrower topic: Iqbal wrote major philosophical poems in Persian and drew on its classical poetic tradition.

• Hafez (Persian poet)Narrower topic: Hafez’s poetry became one of its most influential achievements.

• Saffarid dynastyNarrower topic: Later traditions associate Yaʿqub with support for Persian, though the evidence for his patronage is debated.

• Mas̱navīNarrower topic: The Mas̱navī belongs to the Persian literary tradition and reshaped its mystical poetry.

• Sadegh HedayatNarrower topic: Hedayat’s modern fiction reworks a literary inheritance with deep roots in Persian writing.

• The Conference of the BirdsNarrower topic: Attar's poem belongs to a rich Persian tradition of lyric and narrative poetry.

• Abul FazlNarrower topic: Persian was the language of Abul Fazl’s major histories and the Mughal elite.

• Ismail SamaniNarrower topic: The cultural flowering associated with Bukhara strengthened Persian literary traditions.

• Saadi ShiraziNarrower topic: Saadi’s poetry and prose belong to a literary tradition that flourished across the Persianate world.

• My Name Is RedNarrower topic: Persian poetry and storytelling form part of the literary inheritance invoked by the miniaturists.

• Edward FitzGeraldNarrower topic: The Rubáiyát belongs to a poetic tradition FitzGerald encountered through textual scholarship.

• GhazniNarrower topic: Courtly life in Ghazni helped extend Persian literary culture eastward.

• Jami' al-tawarikhNarrower topic: The chronicle belongs to Persian prose history and courtly literary culture.

• Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamNarrower topic: The quatrains belong to a broad tradition of Persian verse.

• BarbadNarrower topic: Poetry, rather than contemporary records, is central to Barbad’s lasting cultural presence.

• Mohammad-Taqi BaharNarrower topic: Bahar wrote within a literary tradition whose classical forms he adapted for modern subjects.

• Parvin E'tesamiNarrower topic: E'tesami's verse belongs to a literary tradition with a long history of moral and narrative poetry.

• Simin DaneshvarNarrower topic: Daneshvar’s work belongs to a literary tradition she helped renew through modern fiction.

• Sohrab SepehriNarrower topic: Sepehri renewed a literary tradition in which lyric poetry has long held exceptional importance.