Most of the ancient Persian literature was lost during the Islamic Conquest Of Persia .
Morteza Motahhari lists the name of dozens of Iranians who contributed to Arabic, Persian, or Pahlavi literature during the Umayyid occupation period of Iran. {Link without Title} Although not particularly famous for ''Persian literature'', nevertheless some of the more notable names are:
- Ali Mohammad Afghani , writer (علی محمد افغانی)
- Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi
- Mehdi Akhavan-Sales , poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
- Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (جلال آل احمد)
- Ahmad Allahyari , poet , also Journalist
- Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی)
- Reza Amirkhani
- Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
- Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
- Mohammad-Taghi Bahar (محمد تقی بهار)
- Sayed Elan Bahar , from Afghanistan
- Simin Behbahani , poetess
- Massoud Behnoud , historian (مسعود بهنود)
- Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی)
- Samad Behrangi , writer (صمد بهرنگی)
- Ustad Behtab , from Afghanistan
- Sadegh Choubak , writer (صادق چوبک)
- Hamid Dabashi , scholar and cultural critic
- Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور)
- Najaf Daryabandari , translator and writer (نجف دريابندری)
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda , linguist
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولت آبادی)
- Hushang Ebtehaj
- Emad Khorasani (عماد خراسانی)
- Parvin E'tesami , poetess
- Farrokhi Yazdi (فرخی یزدی)
- Forough Farrokhzad , poet (فروغ فرخزاد)
- Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری)
- Soleiman Haim , dictionary
- Reza Gholi Khan Hedayat , poet and historian
- Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
- Mohammad Hejazi , novelist and playwright
- Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال)
- Iraj Mirza (ایرج میرزا)
- Rohinton Mistry , writer
- Mohsen Jamal
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour
- Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh , writer (محمد علی جمالزاده)
- Taraneh Javanbakht , poet, writer (ترانه جوانبخت)
- Mohsen Kadivar (محسن کدیور)
- Ahmad Kasravi (احمد کسروی)
- Ustad Khalilullah Khalili , from Afghanistan {Link without Title}
- Esmail Khoi (اسماعیل خویی)
- Mahmud Kianush (محمود کیانوش)
- Abolghasem Lahouti , communist poet (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی)
- Zabihollah Mansoori , translator (ذبیح الله منصوری)
- Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی)
- Mirzadeh Eshghi
- Mohammad Mokhtari (محمد مختاری)
- Gholamhossein Mosahab , encyclopedist (غلامحسین مصاحب)
- Fereydoun Moshiri , poet (فريدون مشيری)
- Morteza Motahhari , theologian (مرتضی مطهری)
- Ebrahim Nabavi , satirist (ابراهیم نبوی)
- Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور)
- Azar Nafisi , teacher and writer (آذر نفیسی)
- Said Nafisi , Scholar, poet and writer
- Khosro Naghed , writer, translator (خسرو ناقد)
- Ehsan Naraghi , Scholar, sociologist and writer
- Nima Yushij , poet
- Parwin Pazwak , from Afghanistan
- Iraj Pezeshkzad
- Pezhman Bakhtiari , poet (پژمان بختیاری)
- Yar-Ali Pour-Moghaddam , writer and playwright
- Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh
- Nosrat Rahmani (نصرت رحمانی)
- Rahi Mo'ayeri
- Yasmina Reza
- Hasan Husseini
- Hassan Roshdie
- Saadat Noury , poet & journalist (ﻯﺮ ﻮﻧ ﺖ ﺩ ﺎﻌﺴ)
- Bahraam Saadeqi
- Kioumars Saberi Foumani
- Gholamhossein Sa'edi , writer
- Leila Sarahat Roschani , from Afghanistan
- Marjane Satrapi , graphic novelist
- Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری)
- Mohammad Reza Shafii Kadkani , poet
- Mohammad Hossein Shahriar , poet (محمد حسين شهريار)
- Ahmad Shamlou (احمد شاملو)
- Dariush Shayegan
- Ali Shariati , sociologist and theologian
- Mahdi Shojaii (مهدی شجاعی)
- Abdolkarim Soroush , philosopher
- Goli Taraghghi
- Fereidoon Tavallali
- Vaziri
- Gul M. Zhowandai , from Afghanistan
- Motahari , ''Khadamat-i mutaghanil-i Iran wa Islam'', Vol 14, p583-590
- E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-700-70406-X
- Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K
- Zarrinkoub , ''Two centuries of silence'', ISBN 964-5983-33-6
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