Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s3.35

c16.s3.35

The list of the authors and works given above is obviously not complete or exhaustive. But it is indicative of the type of literature produced in the Persian language in the fifteenth century. The works of translation as well as the original ones cover a long range of subjects—medicine, philosophy, theology, lexicography, biography and poetry. Examples of lyrical poetry quoted here exhibit extreme delicacy of feeling and expression; passionate love and deep disappointment; the depth of mysticism and sūfism. Similar works of mystic poetry were produced in other languages also (but of that a little later).