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Asadi Tusi

Type Figure Region West Asia Time c. 920–1072 Also known as Asadi Tusi、Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi、Asadi

Tenth-century Persian poet from Tus in Khurasan, active during the Ghaznavid period.…

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  1. c. 950–1000Khurasan (Tus–Ghazni) · KhurasanComposed narrative poetry during the flourishing Samanid–Ghaznavid cultural period, drawing on the Middle Persian Book of Kings and oral heroic legends, writing the genealogy of Iranian mythological heroes in rigorous meter and grand scope, laying the stylistic groundwork for contemporaries such as Ferdowsi.
  2. c. 1060–1066Tus · KhurasanCompleted the Garshāsp-nāma of over nine thousand couplets, recounting the adventures of the hero Garshāsp as he travels the world slaying monsters and subduing demons, tracing back to the kings of ancient Iran; it is one of the earliest surviving complete long heroic epics in New Persian.

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