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Some of the world's most famous pieces of literature from the Middle Ages, such as the ''[[Shahnameh]]'' by [[Ferdowsi]], the works of [[Rumi]], the ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam|Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám]]'', the {{Lang|fa-latn|[[Khamsa of Nizami|Panj Ganj]]}} of [[Nizami Ganjavi]], [[The Divān of Hafez|''The Divān'' of Hafez]], ''[[The Conference of the Birds]]'' by [[Attar of Nishapur]], and the miscellanea of ''[[Gulistan (book)|Gulistan]]'' and ''[[Bustan (book)|Bustan]]'' by [[Saadi Shirazi]], are written in Persian.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vafa |first1=A |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oNIxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 |title=Persian Literature as World Literature |last2=Abedinifard |first2=M |last3=Azadibougar |first3=O |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-501-35420-5 |location=US |pages=2–14}}</ref> Some of the prominent modern Persian poets were [[Nima Yooshij]], [[Ahmad Shamlou]], [[Simin Behbahani]], [[Sohrab Sepehri]], [[Rahi Mo'ayyeri]], [[Mehdi Akhavan-Sales]], and [[Forugh Farrokhzad]].
 
There are approximately 110130 million Persian speakers worldwide, including [[Persians]], [[Lurs]], [[Tajiks]], [[Hazaras]], [[Iranian Azerbaijanis|Iranian Azeris]], [[Iranian Kurds]], [[Baloch people|Balochs]], [[Tat people (Caucasus)|Tats]], [[Afghan Pashtuns]], and [[Aimaq people|Aimaqs]]. The term ''Persophone'' might also be used to refer to a speaker of Persian.{{sfn|Perry|2005|p=284}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Green |first=Nile |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-PQtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12 |title=Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780199088751 |pages=12–13 |access-date=10 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213125057/https://books.google.com/books?id=-PQtDwAAQBAJ |archive-date=13 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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