Persian Literature Masters in Arab World

Before the advent of Islam in Iran, during the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanid kingdoms, Persian and Arabic languages had a mutual impact on each other because of conquests and business affairs. But mainly, the process of encountering Persian and Arabic languages and cultures after the advent of Islam in Iran began through the orders of the Abbasid Caliphs and with the translation of Middle Persian manuscript texts for the Arabs. This caused the emergence of literature, poetry, philosophy, and new sciences such as mysticism, Islamic medicine, historical studies, linguistics, and various other sciences with a new face in the Persian. As a result, great scholars, poets, and philosophers such as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi, Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani, Sanai, Attar of Nishapur, Omar Khayyam, Nizami Ganjavi, Saadi Shirazi, Hafez, and Rumi were introduced. At the same time, these people were in contact with their Arabic-speaking colleagues such as Al-Zamakhshari, Zayn al-Din Gorgani, Sibawayh, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Nadim, Al-Mutanabbi, Abu Nuwas, and others. In the contemporary era, translators, poets, journalists, researchers, and Arab professors specializing in Persian language and literature in Arab countries, almost from the beginning of the 20th century when Arabic and Persian books and magazines were published in Egypt, became interested in knowing Iran and the Persian language. As a result, great thinkers such as Azzam, Ibn al-Kashshab, Ibrahim al-Dasuqi Sheta, al-Shawarabi, Hindawi, Zahawi, Safi Najafi, Bostani, Usman Kaak, Naguib Mahfouz, Naguib Mahfouz and others paid attention to this matter.