Daqīqī

Abū Mansūr Muhammad ibn Ahmad Daqīqī ( Persian دقیقی, * between 930 and 940; † between 976 and 980) was one of the first neo-Persian poets . The cities of Balch , Tūs , Samarkand and Bukhara are possible places of birth. He made the first significant attempt to put Persian history into an epic.

Daqīqī, who was often mistaken for a Zoroastrian on the basis of references in his poetry , began his career at the age of at least 20 as a panegyric with the princes of Tschaghaniyan and continued it with the Samanid princes Mansūr ibn Nūh (961-976) and Nūh ibn Mansūr (976 -997). He was murdered by a slave. Since his successor Ferdousī completed the first version of the "Book of Kings " ( Shāhnāme ) begun by Daqīqī in 980, Daqīqī's date of death is probably close to the year 976. In addition to the approximately 1000 lines of Daqīqīs in Shāhnāme, a number of his poems, also fragmentary, have been handed down in anthologies . Daqīqī enjoys unbroken popularity in the Persian-speaking world.

literature

Cl. Huart [H. Massé]: "Daḳīḳī". In: Encyclopaedia of Islam , CD-ROM Edition, II: 99b. Leiden 2003. ISBN 90-04-11040-2 .

Web links

Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh: "Daqīqī". In: Encyclopædia Iranica (English, PDF)

footnote

↑ Huart / Massé, Daqīqī , in Encyclopaedia of Islam , New Edition; Brill, Leiden; CD version; "Daqīqī [...] the poet to whom we owe the oldest known text of the national epic in the Persian language."

personal data
SURNAME	Daqīqī
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Abū Mansūr Muhammad ibn Ahmad Daqīqī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	neo-Persian poet
DATE OF BIRTH	between 930 and 940
DATE OF DEATH	between 976 and 980

[1] Huart / Massé, Daqīqī , in Encyclopaedia of Islam , New Edition; Brill, Leiden; CD version; "Daqīqī [...] the poet to whom we owe the oldest known text of the national epic in the Persian language."