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Wikipedia: Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language. For instance, molana, one of Persia's best-loved poets, born in Balkh (in what is now Afghanistan), wrote in Persian, and lived in Konya then the capital of the Seljuks.
![[Nima Yushij, founder of modern Persian poetry]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Nima_Youshij.jpg "Nima Yushij, founder of modern Persian poetry")
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![[Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, master of Persian literature and literary criticism]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Abdolhossein-Zarrinkoub.jpg "Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, master of Persian literature and literary criticism")
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