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'Abu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi Balkhi' (935/942-976/980^[1]), (in ) sometimes referred to as ''Daqiqi'' (also Dakiki, Daghighi, Persian: دقیقی), was an early Persian (''Tājīk'') poet from Balkh^[2], currently one of the cities of Afghanistan.
He supported the nationalistic tendencies in Persian literature and attempted to create an epic history of Persia. After he wrote about a thousand pages about Zoroastrian religion, he was murdered^[3]. 1000 couplet of his work was included in the epic Shahname (Book of Kings) by the Persian epic poet Ferdowsi.
Some scholars speculate that Daqiqi wrote more, but the content was too controversial to be included in Shahname and later lost. Other poems by him have survived, published, among others, in ''Le premier poet Persan'' by G.Lazard.

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Notes

1. Sources vary, treat all dates as estimates.
2. Daqiqi is always known as ''Daqiqi Balkhi''. He was born in Balkh. Here's an article of Dr. Nasrullah Poorjawadi, an Iranian writer and scholar LINK
3. By a slave, servant or political/religious enemies. Again, sources vary.

Further reading

★ Annemarie Schimmel; A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry; University of North Carolina Press (November, 1992); ISBN 0-8078-2050-4

★ B. W. Robinson, The Persian Book of Kings: An Epitome of the Shahnama of Firdawsi; Curzon Press (April, 2002); ISBN 0-7007-1618-1

★ A. J. Arberry; Classical Persian Literature; Routledge/Curzon; New Ed edition (January 31, 1995); ISBN 0-7007-0276-8

★ E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X

★ Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . ISBN 90-277-0143-1

★ Encyclopedia Iranica, "Daqiqi", Jalal Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh [1]

See also

★ List of Persian poets and authors

★ Persian literature

External links

★ Abu-Mansur Daqiqi entry in Encyclopaedia Iranica