Persian Literature by SHELA MARIE LUMAGUI https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a en-us 2023-09-06 14:22:29 UTC 2023-09-07 10:25:35 UTC hello@padlet.com Persian Literature shelamarielumagui https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a/wish/2686838605
  • Central aspect of Persian culture: importance of the oral tradition of storytelling.
  • 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.
  • The Iranian languages belong, together with the Indo-Aryan languages of the Indian subcontinent, to one of the oldest branches of the Indo-European linguistic family: the Indo-Iranian branch.
  • The oldest texts are the Gāthās, 16 (or perhaps 17) short hymns written in an archaic form of an Old Iranian language called Avestan, named for the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism.

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  • Persian literature was little known in the west before the nineteenth century. It became much better known following the publication of several translations from the works of late medieval Persian poets, and it inspired works by various Western poets and writers.
  • Not all Persian literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included.
  • At the same time, not all literature written in Persian is written by ethnic Persians or Iranians, as Turkic, Caucasian, and Indic poets and writer have also used the Persian language in the environment of Persianate cultures.

    • ]]>     2023-09-06 14:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a/wish/2686841331     Author: Omar Khayyam shelamarielumagui https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a/wish/2686843992
  • Full Name: Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami
  • A literal translation of the name al-Khayyami (or al-Khayyam) means 'tentmaker' and this may have been the trade of Ibrahim, his father.
  • A Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for hi scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his robāʿīyāt (“quatrains”) in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
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  • The word “Rubaiyat” (رباعیات) is the plural form of the Arabic word “rubai” (رباعی) which means “quatrain”
  • A collection of poems, originally written in Persian (Farsi)
  • Each quatrain is a standalone poem with its own subject and theme
  • The poems were later translated into English by Edward FitzGerald in 1859
  • The number of quatrains attributed to him in more recent collections varies from about 1,200 (according to Saeed Nafisi) to more than 2,000.

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    Quatrain 3
    And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before 
    The Tavern shouted--"Open then the Door!
    You know how little while we have to stay,
    And, once departed, may return no more."

    Quatrain 9 

    Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
    Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
    And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
    Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away

    Quatrain 53
    But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor
    Of Earth, up to Heav'n's unopening Door
    You gaze To-day, while You are You--how then
    To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?

    Quatrain 101

    And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass
    Among the Guests Star-scatter'd on the Grass,
    And in your joyous errand reach the spot
    Where I made One--turn down an empty Glass!

    ]]>     2023-09-06 14:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a/wish/2686848304     Themes shelamarielumagui https://padlet.com/shelamarielumagui/33xtlw5wyt397p6a/wish/2686850094
    • Impermanence of Earthly Life
    • Living in the Moment
    • Mystery of Death and Eternity

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  • “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ― OMAR KHAYYAM
  • The legacy we leave behind is a reflection of the life we lived.
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