Bundar Razi was an Iranian poet of the 10th and 11th-centuries, who composed poetry in
New Persian
New Persian ( fa, فارسی نو), also known as Modern Persian () and Dari (), is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings. It is conventionally divided into thre ...
and his own local dialect. A native of
Ray, Bundar served at the court of the
Buyid
The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...
ruler
Majd al-Dawla
Abu Talib Rustam ( fa, ابو طالب رستم; 997–1029), commonly known by his ''laqab'' (honorific title) of Majd al-Dawla (), was the last ''amir'' (ruler) of the Buyid amirate of Ray from 997 to 1029. He was the eldest son of Fakhr al-Daw ...
().
According to the modern historian Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, while the local dialect that Bundar wrote in has been called
Fahlawi or even
Daylami
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, it is in reality the
Razi dialect
The Razi dialect was a northwestern Iranian language spoken in the city of Ray, located on the southern slopes of the Alborz mountain range situated near Tehran, the capital of Iran. It was most likely a continuation of the Median language. The l ...
.
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* {{Encyclopaedia Iranica , volume=9 , fascicle=2 , title = Fahlavīyāt , last = Tafazzoli , first = Ahmad , url = https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fahlaviyat , pages = 158–162
Buyid-period poets
10th-century Iranian people
11th-century Iranian people
People from Ray, Iran