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.
Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)