Abu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi Balkhi (Tusi) (935/942-976/980), (in ) sometimes referred to as
Daqiqi (also Dakiki, Daghighi, ), was an early
Persian poet from
Tus in
Iran or in
Balkh, currently one of the cities of
Afghanistan.
Daqiqi supported the nationalistic tendencies in Persian literature and attempted to create an epic history of Iran which is begun by history of Zarathushtra and Gashtasb. Questions have been raised as to whether Daqiqi harbored some Zoroastrian beliefs, or was simply promoting Sassanian cultural trends in the wake of Samanid domination. A large couplet of his work was included in the epic Shahname (Book of Kings) by the Persian epic poet Ferdowsi. Daqiqi was murdered by his favorite slave.
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
Further reading
Annemarie Schimmel; A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry; University of North Carolina Press (November, 1992); ISBN 0-8078-2050-4
B. W. Robinson, The Persian Book of Kings: An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi; Curzon Press (April, 2002); ISBN 0-7007-1618-1
A. J. Arberry; Classical Persian Literature; Routledge/Curzon; New Ed edition (January 31, 1995); ISBN 0-7007-0276-8
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,
History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . ISBN 90-277-0143-1
Encyclopedia Iranica, "Daqiqi", Jalal Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
See also
List of Persian poets and authors
Persian literature
External links
Abu-Mansur Daqiqi entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica
Category:Persian poets
Category:Iranian poets
Category:Iranian Sufis
Category:10th-century births
Category:10th-century deaths
