Abū Ḥafṣ Sughdī

by Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz

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Abū Ḥafṣ Sughdī was an Iranian poet of the late-third/ninth to early-fourth/ tenth century believed to have been the first to write poetry in New Persian. He was also a musician and possibly the inventor of the musical instrument called the shahrūd . Not much is known about Abū Ḥafṣ's life. The first source to refer to him appears to be al- Muʿjam fī maʿāyīr ashʿār al-ʿajam (“Pointed [writing] on the defects of Persian poetry”) by Shams-i Qays Rāẓī (fl. 601–28/1204–30), written

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Abū Ḥafṣ Sughdī was an Iranian poet of the late-third/ninth to early-fourth/ tenth century believed to have been the first to write poetry in New Persian. He was also a musician and possibly the inventor of the musical instrument called the shahrūd . Not much is known about Abū Ḥafṣ's life. The first source to refer to him appears to be al- Muʿjam fī maʿāyīr ashʿār al-ʿajam (“Pointed [writing] on the defects of Persian poetry”) by Shams-i Qays Rāẓī (fl. 601–28/1204–30), written

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei117

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eng Islam

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Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz

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