Abu-al-Faraj Runi
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Persian poet
Abul Faraj Runi (
court poet who wrote Mathnawi. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan. He was a contemporary of Masud Sa'ad Salman
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He died at the turn of the 11th-12th century.
References used
- E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
- Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
See also
- List of Persian poets and authors
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Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of Iran, Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of Afghanistan.
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