Abu Mansur Daqiqi
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Abu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi (935/942-976/980), (in Persian: ابو منصور محمد بن احمد دقیقی) sometimes referred to as Daqiqi (also Dakiki, Daghighi, Persian: دقیقی), was an early Persian poet from Tus, Bukhara, Samarkand or Balkh.
He supported the nationalistic tendencies in Persian literature and attempted to create an epic history of Persia. After he wrote about a thousand pages about Zoroastrian religion, he was murdered. His work is included in the epic Shahname (Book of Kings) of another Persian poet, Ferdowsi.
Some scholars speculate that Daqiqi wrote more, but the content was too controversial to be included in Shahname and later lost. Other poems by him have survived, published, among others, in Le premier poet Persan by G.Lazard.
[edit] Notes
- ↑ Sources vary, treat all dates as estimates. Similarly, places of birth also vary in available sources.
- ↑ By a slave, servant or political/religious enemies. Again, sources vary.
[edit] Further reading
- Annemarie Schimmel; A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry; University of North Carolina Press (November, 1992); ISBN 0-8078-2050-4
- B. W. Robinson, The Persian Book of Kings: An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi; Curzon Press (April, 2002); ISBN 0-7007-1618-1
- A. J. Arberry; Classical Persian Literature; Routledge/Curzon; New Ed edition (January 31, 1995); ISBN 0-7007-0276-8
- 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
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