Persian literature
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Also known as: Farsī literature, Modern Persian literature, New Persian literature
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Rūmī Ferdowsī Omar Khayyam Sadeq Hedayat Saʿdī
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Persian literature, body of writings in New Persian (also called Modern Persian), the form of the Persian language written since the 9th century with a slightly extended form of the Arabic alphabet and with many Arabic loanwords. The literary form of New Persian is known as Farsi in Iran, where it is the country’s official language, and as Dari in Afghanistan, where it and Pashto are official languages. It is written with a Cyrillic alphabet by Tajiks in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. For centuries New Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in western Central Asia, on the Indian subcontinent, ...(100 of 9329 words)

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