Afghan poetry

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A Meeting of Some Persian Poets: (L to R) Morteza Keyvan, Ahmad Shamlou, Nima Yooshij, Siavash Kasraie, and Hushang Ebtehaj.]]The list is not comprehensive but is continuously being expanded and includes writers and poets from Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India. This list is alphabetized by chronological order. Some names that lived during the turn of a century appear twice.

Contents 1 Before The Islamic Invasion 2 From the Islamic Invasion to the 8th century 3 9th century 4 10th century 5 11th century 6 12th century 7 14th century 8 15th century 9 16th century 10 17th century 11 18th century 12 19th century 13 20th century and beyond 13.1 Prose 13.2 Poetry 14 References 15 See also

[edit] Before The Islamic Invasion

• Zarathustra (زرتشت), Iranian prophet and author of the Avestan Gathas (probably 1200 BC)
• Mani (مانی), Persian religious leader and founder of Manichaeism (approximately 210-276 A.D.)
• An Shihkao, a Parthian translator.

Most of the ancient Persian literature was lost during the Islamic conquest of Persia.

[edit] From the Islamic Invasion to the 8th century

Morteza Motahhari lists the name of dozens of Iranians who contributed to Arabic, Persian, or Pahlavi literature during the Umayyid occupation period of Iran.[1] Although not particularly famous for Persian literature, nevertheless some of the more notable names are:

• Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa (ابن مقفع)
• Bukhari (بخاری)
• Sibawayh (سیبویه)
• Dinawari (دینوری)
• Baladhuri (بلاذری)
• Naubakht (نوبخت)

[edit] 9th century

• Rudaki (رودکی)
• Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج)
• Ibn Khafif (ابن خفیف)

[edit] 10th century

• Ferdowsi (فردوسی), poet (925-1020)
• Abusaeid Abolkheir (ابوسعید ابوالخیر)
• Rudaki (رودکی)
• Abu Mansur Daqiqi (ابومنصور دقیقی)
• Mansur Al-Hallaj (منصور حلاج)
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi (ابوالفضل بیهقی), historian
• Unsuri (عنصری)
• Rabi'ah Quzdari (ربیعه قزداری)
• Asjadi (عسجدی)
• Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سیستانی)
• Kisai Marvazi (کسائی مروزی)
• Abu Shakur Balkhi (ابوشکور بلخی)
• Ayyuqi (عیوقی)

[edit] 11th century

• Asad Gorgani
• Asjadi
• Ferdowsi, poet (925-1020)
• Omar Khayyám, poet (1048-1131)
• Hujviri d1073
• Abusaeid Abolkheir
• Sanai Ghaznavi
• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Manuchihri
• Nasreddin
• Sanaayi
• Abolfazl Beyhaghi, historian
• Naser Khosrow, traveller, writer and poet
• Farrokhi sistani(فرخی سيستانی) , poet
• Baba Tahir Oryan
• Rabi'ah Quzdari
• Abu-al-faraj Runi
• The author of Qabus nama
• Nizam al-Mulk, author of Siyasatnama
• Mu'izzi
• Azraqi
• Masud Sa'd Salman
• Uthman Mukhtari
• Qatran Tabrizi
• Mughatil ibn Bakri
• Asadi Tusi
• Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi
• Imam Muhammad Ghazali

[edit] 12th century

• Adib Sabir
• Am'aq
• Anvari
• Attar, poet (about 1130-about 1230)
• Omar Khayyám, poet (1048-1131)
• Nezami, poet (about 1140-about 1120)
• Saadi, poet (1184-1283/1291?)
• Sheikh Ruzbehan
• Abdul Qadir Jilani
• Nasreddin
• Khaqani Shirvani
• Sanaayi
• Muhammad Aufi
• Falaki Shirvani
• Hassan Ghaznavi, poet
• Sanai Ghaznavi, poet
• Mu'izzi
• Uthman Mukhtari
• Mahsati, poetess
• Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat
• Nizami Arudhi Samarqandi

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[edit] 14th century

• Hafez, poet (born about 1310-1325)
• Rashid al-Din, (1247-1318)
• Khosravi Dehlavi,(from India)
• Shams e Tabrizi
• Khwaju Kermani
• Mahmud Shabistari
• Nasreddin
• Obeid Zakani
• Meulana Shahin Shirazi
• Junayd Shirazi
• Kamaal-al-din Esfehaani
• Jamaal-al-din Esfehaani
• Auhadi of Maragheh
• Ghiyathu'd-Din

[edit] 15th century

• Jami, poet (1414-1492)
• Nizam ud-Din Ali Sher Heravi Nava'i, poet (1441-1501)

[edit] 16th century

[edit] 17th century

• Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil (1642–1720)
• Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637 - 1702)

[edit] 18th century

• Hazin Lahiji (حزین لاهیجی)
• Hatef Esfehani, poet (هاتف اصفهانی)

[edit] 19th century

• Adib-ol-mamalek-e Farahani
• Muhammad Iqbal Lahoori,From Pakistan
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar
• Iraj Mirza
• Farrokhi Yazdi
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Aref Qazvini
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist and journalist
• Hassan Roshdie
• Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
• Ebrahim Poordavood, ancient languages, Avesta

[edit] 20th century and beyond

[edit] Prose

• Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer (علی محمد افغانی)
• Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi (احمد رضا احمدی)
• Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
• Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (جلال آل احمد)
• Ahmad Allahyari, poet , also Journalist
• Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی), writer [2]
• Bozorgmehr Vaziri,poet, journalist,scholar, Christian evangelist
• Reza Amirkhani (رضا امیرخانی)
• Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
• Sadegh Angha, Sufi master, poet, scholar, and writer (صادق عنقا)
• Nader Angha, Sufi master, scholar, poet, and writer (نادر عنقا)
• Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
• Mohammad-Taghi Bahar (محمد تقی بهار)
• Sayed Elan Bahar, from Afghanistan
• Reza Baraheni, critic
• Simin Behbahani, poet
• Massoud Behnoud (مسعود بهنود), journalist [3]
• Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی)
• Samad Behrangi, writer (صمد بهرنگی)
• Sadegh Choubak, writer (صادق چوبک)
• Hamid Dabashi, scholar and cultural critic
• Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور)
• Najaf Daryabandari, translator and writer (نجف دريابندری)
• Ali Akbar Dehkhoda, linguist
• Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولت آبادی)
• Hushang Ebtehaj
• Emad Khorasani (عماد خراسانی)
• Parvin E'tesami, poet
• Farrokhi yazdi (فرخی یزدی)
• Forough Farrokhzad, poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
• Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
• Shahrnush Parsipur,Novelist.
• Muniru Ravanipur,Story writer
• Soleiman Haim, dictionary
• Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat, poet and historian
• Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
• Mohammad Hejazi, novelist and playwright
• Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال)
• Iraj Mirza (ایرج میرزا)
• Rohinton Mistry, writer
• Mohsen Jamal
• Farzaneh Aghaeipour
• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, writer (محمد علی جمالزاده)
• Taraneh Javanbakht, poet, writer (ترانه جوانبخت)
• Mohsen Kadivar (محسن کدیور), theologian [4]
• Ahmad Kasravi (احمد کسروی)
• Ustad Khalilullah Khalili, poet from Afghanistan
• Ustad Abdul Haq Betāb, poet from Afghanistan
• Esmail Khoi (اسماعیل خویی)
• Mahmud Kianush (محمود کیانوش)
• Abolghasem Lahouti, communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
• Zabihollah Mansoori, translator (ذبیح الله منصوری)
• Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی)
• Iraj Rahmani, novelist (ايرج رحمانی)
• Mirzadeh Eshghi
• Mohammad Mokhtari(محمد مختاری)
• Gholamhossein Mosahab, encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب)
• Fereydoun Moshiri, poet (فريدون مشيری)
• Morteza Motahhari, theologian (مرتضی مطهری)
• Ebrahim Nabavi, satirist (ابراهیم نبوی)
• Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
• Azar Nafisi, teacher and writer (آذر نفیسی)
• Said Nafisi, Scholar, poet and writer
• Khosrow Naghed (خسرو ناقد), writer, translator [5]
• Majid M. Naini, writer, translator, speaker [6]
• Ehsan Naraghi, Scholar, sociologist and writer
• Nima Yushij, poet
• Parwin Pazwak, from Afghanistan
• Iraj Pezeshkzad
• Pezhman Bakhtiari , poet (پژمان بختیاری)
• Yar-Ali Pour-Moghaddam, writer and playwright
• Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
• Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
• Rahi Mo'ayeri
• Yasmina Reza
• Hasan Husseini
• Hassan Roshdie
• Saadat Noury, poet & journalist (ﻯﺮ ﻮﻧ ﺖ ﺩ ﺎﻌﺴ)
• Bahraam Saadeqi
• Kioumars Saberi Foumani
• Gholamhossein Sa'edi, writer
• Leila Sarahat Roschani, from Afghanistan
• Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
• Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
• Mohammad Reza Shafii Kadkani, poet
• Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
• Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو), poet [7]
• Dariush Shayegan
• Ali Shariati, sociologist and theologian
• Mahdi Shojaii (مهدی شجاعی)
• Abdolkarim Soroush, philosopher [8]
• Goli Taraghghi
• Fereidoon Tavallali
• Gul M. Zhowandai, from Afghanistan
• Kalimollah Tavahhodi , Kanimal , writer

[edit] Poetry

• Ahmad Allahyari (احمد اللهياری)
• Sadegh Angha (صادق عنقا)
• Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی)
• Hushang Ebtehaj (H. A. Sayeh) (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
• Forough Farrokhzad (فروغ فرخزاد)
• Siavash Kasraie (سیاوش کسرایی)
• Fereydoun Moshiri (فریدون مشیری)
• Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
• Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
• Hossein Monzavi (حسین منزوی)
• Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
• Bozorgmehr Vaziri(بزرگمهر وزیری)
• Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani (محمد رضا شفیعی کدکنی)
• Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو)
• Mohsen Emadi(محسن عمادی)
• Misha Javdani(میشاجاودانی)
• Nima Yushij (نیما یوشیج)
• Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub
• Manouchehr Saadat Noury (منوچهر سعادت نوری)
• Maryam Heydarzadeh
• Meher Baba (مهربابا)
• Mirza-Agha Asgari (Mani) (میرزاآقا عسگری - مانی)

[edit] References

• Motahari, Khadamat-i mutaghanil-i Iran wa Islam, Vol 14, p583-590
• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
• Jan Rypka, K. Jahn and P. van Popta-Hope, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1899. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
• Zarrinkoub, Two centuries of silence, No ISBN available. Does not appear to be available in English.

[edit] See also

• Authors from Iran
• category:Iranian poets
• Persian literature
• Persian language
• List of Iranian writers

• Khushal Khan Khattak (Pashto)
• Hanzala of Badghis (Dari)
• Rahman Baba (Pashto)

  Rahman Baba is one of the greatest Pashtun poets of all times, whose works are every bit as important to the Pashtun as William Shakespeare is to the English. His works are spiritual. [9]

• Rabi'a Balkhi (Dari)
• Ahmad Shah Durrani (Pashto)
• Mirza Abdul Qadir Beidel (Dari)
• Shah Shuja (Pashto)
• Mahmud Warraq (Dari)
• Timur Shah (Pashto)
• Abu Isma'il ' Abd Allah ibn Mohmamad-al Ansari (Dari)
• Ghulam Mohammad Tarzi (Dari)
• Aminullah Khurasani (Dari)
• Abdu Rahman -e- Jami (Dari)
• Hamid of Kashmir (Pashto)
• Bibi Mukhfi -e-Badakhshani (Dari)
• Abdul Qader Khattak (Pashto)
• Rodaki of Samarkand (Dari)
• Ashraf Hejri (Pashto)
• Daqiqi of Balkh (Dari)
• Abdul Hamid Mohmand (Pashto)
• Kahi-e- Kabul (Dari)
• Kazim Khan Shaida (Pashto)
• Abul-Faizi Hazrat (Dari)
• Pir Mohammad Kakar (Pashto)
• Sa'aduddin Ansari (Dari)
• Bait Neka (Pashto)
• Dr Mohammad Asef Sohail
• Gul Mohamad Zhowandai (Dari)
• Sayed Jamaludin-e-Afghani (Dari)
• Ali Khan (Pashto)
• Mehrdel Khan Mashriqi (Dari)
• Abdul Hanan Barakzai (Pashto)
• Nadia Anjuman (???)

  One of the first afghan poetess, she was found dead at age of 25 by police officers after that her husband had beaten her to death.