Kisa'i Marvazi (
Persian: کسایی مروزی; 953–1002) was a 10th-century
Persian poet.[1]
His full name was probably Abu’l-Hasan (or Abu Ishaq) Majd al-Din ʿAli ibn Muhammad Kisāʾi (or Kasāʾi) Marvazi (according to Ali al-Bakharzi, author of Dumyat al-Qasr).[1] Born in 953 CE and originating from
Merv, he paid flattery first and foremost to the courts of the
Samanids, but also to the
Abbasids and
Ghaznavids, particularly
Mahmud of Ghazni.[citation needed]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.