Persian Poetry
A new Persian poetry blog
I have created PERSIAN POETRY BLOG to post bits and pieces pertaining to Classical Persian poetry (900-1500 CE). Readers will be able to search by names, single words, or labels such as “Persian words,” “Sufi poets,” etc.
“Lovers, Mystics, and Madmen”
Click on image below to go to slides from the lecture.
Materials from
“Lovers, Mystics, and Madmen.”
Includes “List of Seven Persian Poets”
Excerpts of more than a dozen Persian poems.
Mahmud Shabistari (c. 1288-c. 1340)
from Rūmī’s Masnavi
“Pieces of wisdom are the armies of God . . .”
Vis and Ramin
An epic love poem from 11th century Persia
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