INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS

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Al-Firdousi was the poet of:
A
Africa
B
America
C
Asia
D
Persia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (Persian: ; 940 – 1019/1025), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world’s longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first significant Persian poet was Rūdakī. He flourished in the 10th century, when the Samanids were at the height of their power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ferdowsi. Ferdowsi is perhaps Iran’s most famous poet, credited for writing the Shahnameh, the national epic of the Persian speaking world and the longest work of epic poetry ever written, composed of more than 60, 000 verses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rūdakī, byname of Abū ʿAbdollāh Jaʿfar ibn Moḥammad, (born c. 859, Rudak, Khorāsān-died 940/941, Rudak?), the first poet of note to compose poems in the “New Persian, ‘’ written in Arabic alphabet, widely regarded as the father of Persian poetry.

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