Abu Shakur Balkhi ( Persian: ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian [1] poets of the Samanid period.
He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three masnavis, the work Āfarin nama (written in 944) among them. Only 192 scraps of his verses remain today.
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Abu Shakur Balkhi ( Persian: ابوشکور بلخی; born possibly in 912-13) was one of the most important Persian [1] poets of the Samanid period.
He was a contemporary of Rudaki, and wrote three masnavis, the work Āfarin nama (written in 944) among them. Only 192 scraps of his verses remain today.
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Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
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