Abu Shakur Balkhi ( fa, ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important
Persian poets of the
Samanid
The Samanid Empire ( fa, سامانیان, Sāmāniyān) also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, of Iranian dehqan origin. The empire was centred in Kho ...
period.
He was a contemporary of
Rudaki, and wrote three ''
masnavi
The ''Masnavi'', or ''Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi'' ( fa, مثنوی معنوی), also written ''Mathnawi'', or ''Mathnavi'', is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Rumi. The ''Masnavi'' is one of the most ...
s'', the work ''Āfarin nama'' (written in 944) among them. Only 192 scraps of his verses remain today.
References
Sources
* E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998.
* Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
See also
*
List of Persian poets and authors
910s births
Year of death missing
10th-century Persian-language poets
Samanid-period poets
People from Balkh
10th-century Iranian people
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