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On whether lyrical songs are addressed to a worldly and corporeal or to an other-worldly and mystical beloved. But come the twelfth century, the rise of mysticism in Persian poetry opens the gate to speculation

Samarqandi, or Farrokhi Sistani or Manucheri Damghani, who flourished in the tenth and eleventh centuries, implied a mystical Hardly anyone would claim that the lyricism of Rudaki The thirteenth century (the century of Sa‘di and Rumi) onwards. There is a long-standing debate among Iranian as well as Western Persianist criticsĪs to the object of love and adoration in the lyrical works of classical Persian poets, from the twelfth and, especially, Works, although both his ideas and his style are highly original.

To varying degrees, the impact of this rich background can be felt throughout Sa‘di’s Way since their emergence in 2the ninth and tenthĬenturies, covering a whole range of subjects, from panegyrics, lyrics, laments and reflections to history, epics, romances, Ĭlassical Persian literature in general and poetry in particular had come a long On morals and manners, with the result that, as noted below, they overshadowed his more than 700 lyrics and love songs, whichĬount among the finest ever written by Persian masters. Prose Golestan and, to a lesser extent, his long poem Bustan In both East and West he was most admired for his book of Intellectuals, writers and humanists in the centuries to follow. Translated into European languages from the seventeenth century onwards and had a considerable impact on European philosophers,

He was a contemporary of Rumi (though they are unlikely to have known of each other)Īnd, despite significant differences in thought and style, influenced the poetry of Hafiz in various ways. His verse in a letter, and shortly after whose death Chinese singers could sing one of his lyrics without Born in the seventh century of Hijra, thirteenth of the ChristianĮra, he is the only Persian luminary whose fame was so widespread that during his lifetime a Turk in Anatolia could quote Is one of the greatest classical Persian poets of all time.