Asadi Tusi

Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi (Persian: ابونصر علی بن احمد اسدی طوسی; c. 1000 – 1073) was a Persian poet, linguist, and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered an important Persian-language poet of the Iranian national epics. His best-known work is the Garshasp-nama, written in the style of the Shahnameh.

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