Loiq Sher-Ali was a Tajik poet, Iranologist and one of the most cellebrated Persian literary

Persian literature

Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...

 figures of Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

 and central Asia

Central Asia

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Loiq Sher-Ali had expertise in classical Persian poetry. The influence of Firdowsi, Khayyam

Khayyam

Omar Khayyam was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer.Omar Khayyam or Khayyam or may also refer to:* Khayyam, Iran* Mohammed Zahur Khayyam , commonly credited as 'Khayaam', Indian music composer...

 and Molana Jalaleddin-e Balkhi is evident in Shir-Ali's works. He also translated several literary master pieces into Persian.

He was the head of Tajik-Persian Language International Foundation in Middle Asia and he was called as Shah-Poet of Tajikistan. A chosen collection of his works is published in Iran, 1994. Another collection, "Rakh's Spirit" is published in Iran, 1999, by Mirzo Shakurzoda.

See also

• Persian literature
  Persian literature
  Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
  
  
• Persian culture
• Greater Iran
  Greater Iran
  Greater Iran refers to the regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence. It roughly corresponds to the territory on the Iranian plateau and its bordering plains, stretching from Iraq, the Caucasus, and Turkey in the west to the Indus River in the east...
  
  
• Mohammad Jan Shakouri
  Mohammad Jan Shakouri
  Muhammad-Jon Shakuri , also known as Shukurov is a prominent Tajik intellectual and one of the notable Persian literary figures of 20th century.Among his main works is a Tajiki Persian dictionary...
  
  

External links

• Shir-Ali, combining old and new styles in Persian poetry (BBC Persian)