Abul Faraj Runi (Persian: ابوالفرج رونی), born in Lahore, was an 11th-century Persian court poet who wrote Mathnawi. His family came from Nishapur in Khorasan. He was a contemporary of Masud Sa'ad Salman.
He died at the turn of the 11th-12th century.
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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. |
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