Asadī | Persian poet | Britannica (original) (raw)

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contribution to Persian literature

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  In Persian literature: The proliferation of court patronage
  …(today in northwestern Iran) by Asadī, who had migrated to Azerbaijan from his native town of Ṭūs (now Mashhad) in Khorāsān. As a poet, he had become the most important successor to Ferdowsī through his Garshāsp-nāmeh, a heroic epic in masnawi form telling about the adventures in India and Sri…
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  In Islamic arts: Epic and romance
  The first example is Asadī’s (died c. 1072) didactic Garshāsp-nāmeh (“Book of Garshāsp”), whose hero is very similar to Rostam. The tales of Alexander and his journeys through foreign lands were another favourite topic.
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