A leading modern Iranian poet once wrote the verse: “Our life is poetry, legend and myth.” And although there is much more to Iranian life, poetry, legend, mysticism, religion and myth form an important...

The alternating skeptical and mystical modes of this poetic tradition, the richness of imagery, the subtlety of rhythm, the ambiguities of allusion, the interpenetrating levels of erotic or bacchic with political and spiritual ...

Saadi Shirazi (Saadi of Shiraz) was born in 1210 in Shiraz, died in 1290 and was buried in there. He was one of the most prominent Persian prose writers and poets of all time.

Ferdowsi (940 – 1025), one of the greatest Persian poets of all time, author of the Persian national epic , Shahnameh (Book of Kings) to which he gave an eternal and final form, although he based his poem mainly ...

‘Abdollah Jafar Ebn Mohammad Rudaki’ is presumed to have been born about 880 CE and passed around 941 CE. Unfortunately, very little has been recorded on his life;

Hafez (born 1325 – died 1390, Shiraz) is one of the most favored of Persian poets. He is one of the greatest poets of Iran with perhaps deep effect on Iranian life and culture in general than any other.

Omar Khayyam, Persian polymath, scientist, philosopher, astronomer and poet of the 11th century. He was born in 1048, Neyshabur , Iran, and died in 1131.