Persian literature

Persian literature, literary writings in the Persian language, nearly all of it written in the area traditionally known as Persia, now Iran.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Literature
• Literary Flowering and the Golden Age
• The Silver Age and Later Works
• Bibliography

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