Khwaju Kermani (1280-1352) was a famous poet and Sufi mystic from Persia. Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a system of esoteric philosophy commonly associated with Islam. ... Persia can refer to: the Western name for Iran. ...
His expertise was in the ghazal. In poetry (and as the lyrics in songs), the ghazal (Persian/Urdu غزل) is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. ...
He is buried in Shiraz, Iran, and his tomb is a popular tourist attraction today. ShirÄz (شیراز in Persian) is a city in southwest Iran (Persia) with 1,050,000 inhabitants (1996 census). ...
References used
E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-700-70406-X
Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
The list is not comprehensive but is continuously being expanded, and is not geographically of what today is Iran. ... Persian literature is literature written in Persian, or by Persians in other languages. ...
The Demotte Shah-nameh is but the most remarkable of a whole series of 14th-century manuscripts, all of which suggest an art of painting in search of a coherent style.
A more organized and stylistically coherent period in Persian painting began around 1396 with the KhwajuKermani manuscript (British Museum) and culminated between 1420 and 1440 in the paintings produced by the Herat school, where the emperor Baysunqur created an academy in which classical Iranian literature was codified, copied, and illustrated.
Although several Shah-namehs are known from this time, the mood of these manuscripts is no longer epic but lyrical.
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