Abu-Mansur Daqiqi

Abu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi (Persian دقیقی, * 930-940; † 976-980 ) was one of the first new Persian poet. The cities of Balkh, Tus, Samarkand and Bukhara are used as places of birth in question. From him comes the first significant attempt to summarize the Persian history in an epic.

Daqiqi, which was held frequently for a Zoroastrian account of the observations in his poetry, his career began at least 20 years old as panegyrists at the Prince of Tschaghaniyan and put them in the Samanidenfürsten Mansur ibn Nuh ( 961-976 ) and Nuh ibn Mansur ( 976 -997 ) away. He was murdered by a slave. As his successor, Ferdousi the first version of the initiated by Daqiqi " Book of Kings " ( Shahnameh ) completed it 980, the date of death Daqīqīs is probably close to the year 976 In addition to the approximately 1000 lines Daqīqīs in Shahnameh a number of his poems, even fragmentary, preserved in anthologies. Daqiqi enjoys in the Persian -speaking lasting popularity.