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c. 522 BCEBehistun Inscription of Darius I; considered the first example of Persian literature.
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330 BCELiterature of the Achaemenid Empire lost in its conquest by Alexander the Great and the burning of library of Persepolis.
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224 CE - 651 CEMiddle Persian dialect in use during the period of the Sassanian Empire; written literature develops in response to religious texts.
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651 CESassanian Empire falls to invading Muslim Arabs; Zoroastrian texts and Sassanian literary works destroyed.
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750 CE - 1258 CEPersian literature and culture revive under the Abbasid Dynasty.
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819 CE - 999 CEPersian literature flourishes under the Samanid Dynasty which encourages some its greatest poets.
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859 CE - c. 940 CELife of the Persian poet Rudaki, "the father of Persian Literature".
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c. 935 CE - 977 CELife of the Persian poet Daqiqi who makes first attempt at writing the Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings.
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c. 940 CE - 1020 CELife of the Persian poet Ferdowsi, author of the literary masterpiece Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings.
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1048 CE - 1131 CELife of the Persian mathematician, scientist, scholar, and poet Omar Khayyam.
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1080 CE - c. 1131 CELife of the Persian poet Sanai, author of The Walled Garden of Truth.
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c. 1141 CE - 1209 CELife of the Persian poet Nizami.
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c. 1145 CE - c. 1220 CELife of the Persian poet Attar.
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1207 CE - 1273 CELife of the Persian poet Rumi, considered one of the greatest literary artists in the world.
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1210 CE - c. 1291 CELife of the Persian poet Saadi.
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1315 CE - 1390 CELife of the Persian poet Hafiz Shiraz, considered the greatest Persian poet and among the greatest in the world.
