Daqiqi

He supported the nationalistic tendencies in Persian literature and attempted to create an Epic history of Persia . After he wrote about a thousand pages about Zoroastrian religion, he was murdered². His work is included in the epic Shahname (Book of Kings) of another Persian poet, Ferdowsi .

Some scholars speculate that Daqiqi wrote more, but the content was too controversial to be included in Shahname and later lost. Other poems by him have survived, published, among others, in ''Le premier poet Persan'' by G.Lazard .

NOTES

# Sources vary, treat all dates as estimates. Same with places of birth.
# By a slave, servant or political/religious enemies. Again, sources vary.

FURTHER READING

Annemarie Schimmel ; A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry; University of North Carolina Press (November, 1992); ISBN 0807820504

B. W. Robinson , The Persian Book of Kings: An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi; Curzon Press (April, 2002); ISBN 0700716181

A. J. Arberry ; Classical Persian Literature; Routledge/Curzon; New Ed edition (January 31, 1995); ISBN 0700702768

E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-700-70406-X

Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K

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