Manuchehri
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Abu Najm Abu Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri (Persian: منوچهری), a.k.a Manuchehri Damghani, was a royal poet of the 11th century in Persia.
He was from Damghan in Iran and he was the first to employ the form of musammat in Persian poetry.
He was a royal poet in the court of Sultan Shihab ud-Dawlah Mas'ud I of the Ghaznavid dynasty.
He has a Divan attributed to him. His works were extensively studied by A. de Biberstein-Kazimirski in 1886. It has been said that some of his poems were incorporated in the famous book "[Shahnameh]" by [Ferdowsi]. He died in 1040CE.
[edit] 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
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