Asadi Tusi
Abu Mansur Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi ( Persian ابو منصور علی بن احمد اسدی طوسی, DMG Abū Manṣūr 'Alī bin Aḥmad Asadī-ye Ṭūsī , * Tūs ; † 1072 ) was a Persian poet and a great epic poet . Tusi was mistakenly called Ferdousi's teacher . Tusi was the author of debates (Monāzer), the book Garchasp ( Garchaspnāme ), the best epic after the Shāhnāme Ferdousis - also author of panegyric (eulogies) and author of one of the oldest dictionaries in the Persian language, in which he used rare words and words from the Persian poetry collected ( Loghat-e Fārs ).
Life
First he lived in Khorasan at the court of the Ghaznavids , later in Azerbaijan with the princes of the region there. In his main work, Garschaspnāme , he tells of the adventures of Garschasp , Rostam's ancestor . After listing the line of ancestors, he reports in detail about his travels and stays in different countries, his struggles there, his conversation with Brahman and with other sages - as well as the manners and customs of the foreign peoples he visited in connection with admonitions and advice to the reader. His strength lies above all in the descriptions, the word combinations, his sentence structure and the choice of expressive and subtle images.
Falsely, some orientalists have long spoken of a son and father relationship between Ferdosi and Tus, which, however, was refuted by Zabihollah Safa .
literature
- Edition Garchaspnameh: Yaghmai (Teheran 1918), translation and edition of the first third: Clément Huart (1926), the other two thirds by Henry Massé (1950.)
- EIr (Dj. Khaleghi-Motlagh)
Web links
- Literature by and about Asadi Tusi in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Z. Safa: History of Literature in Iran , II, p. 404ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tusi, sādi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian poet and epic poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century or 11th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tūs |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1072 |