Abu Najm Abu Ahmad ibn Qaus Manuchehri (Persian: منوچهری), a.k.a Manuchehri Damghani, was a royal poet of the 11th century in Persia.
He was from Damghan in Iran and he was the first to employ the form of musammat in Persian poetry.
He was a royal poet in the court of Sultan Shihab ud-Dawlah Mas'ud I of the Ghaznavid dynasty.
He has a Divan attributed to him. His works were extensively studied by A. de Biberstein-Kazimirski in 1886. It has been said that some of his poems were incorporated in the famous book Shahnameh by Ferdowsi. He died in 1040CE.
References used
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. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. The above lists include poets mostly of Iranic background but also some of Indic, Turkic and Slavic backgrounds. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world.
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