Persian Poem, Motto of United Nation
9 August 2019With a long history
of literature in the form of Middle Persian before Islam, Persian was the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic monopoly on writing and the writing of poetry in Persian was established as a court tradition in many eastern courts.
There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide, with the language holding official status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. For centuries, Persian has also been an admired cultural language in other regions of Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia by the various empires based in the regions.
Some of the famous works of Persian literature are the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, the works of Rumi, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Panj Ganj of Nizami Ganjavi, the Divān of Hafez, The Conference of the Birds of Attar of Nishapur and the two miscellanea of prose and verse by Saadi Shirazi, the Gulistan and the Bustan .
