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Turkish in pre-Mongol Persian poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Tourkhan Gandjeï
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The rise and development of Persian poetry in Transoxiana and Khurāsān coincided with the growth in influence of the Turkish element in the Sãmãnid state. Although Turks had alredy been living in these regions at the time of the Arab conquest, it was under the Sāmānids especially that emerged into political and military prominence, having risen form the status of slaves to the highest ranks of power. In the fragmentary survivals of the Persian poetry of this period we not only find mention of Turks but even the occasional word of Turkish origin:

‘This cloud is like a crazed Turk, shooting arrows; the lightning his shafts, and the rainbow his bow.’

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 1986 , pp. 67 - 75
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1986

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