Iranian literature is a term that has been used mainly in reference to Persian literature, but the term has other meanings as well:
- Literature in any other Iranian language (both extinct and present), such as the Avesta, or those written in:
- extinct: Old Persian, Middle Persian, Sogdian, Khwarezmian, Parthian, Saka, Old Azari
- modern: Kurdish, Gorani, Zazaki, Pashto, Balochi, and others.
- Literature in languages of modern Iran, including Persian, Kurdish, Azerbaijani Turkish, Balochi, Talyshi, Armenian, Arabic, and other languages spoken in Iran.
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“The higher, the more exalted the society, the greater is its culture and refinement, and the less does gossip prevail. People in such circles find too much of interest in the world of art and literature and science to discuss, without gloating over the shortcomings of their neighbors.”
—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)