Medieval Islamic World

One Coin Per Couplet: How a Sultan Cheated a Poet

A single poem (and one king's failure to pay for it) handed Central Asia to the Turks in 1010 AD.

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PersiaMedievalLiterature and LanguageCultural PreservationIslamic Golden AgeFerdowsiMahmud of GhazniCentral AsiaPoetryIdentity

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