Medieval Persian literature

thumb|491x491px|A front page of the Government Book. The Siyasatnama (, ), also known as the Siyar al-muluk (, ), is the most famous work attributed to Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of the Nizamiyyas (higher education institutions) in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah. Nizam al-Mulk possessed "immense power" as the head administration for the Seljuk Empire over a period of 30 years and was responsible for establishing distinctly Persian forms of Islamic government and administration which would last for centuries. A great deal of his approach to governing

historical account of the conquest of Persia by the Mongols of Genghis Khan

epic poem by Nezami Ganjavi

set of five poems by Nizami

early thirteenth-century manuscript poem by Ayyuqi

thumb|The fortified desert city of Hatra, which had repelled three Roman and one Sasanian sieges, fell to the Sasanian king [[Shapur I in 241.]]

illuminated Persian manuscript of ''Manafi' al-Hayawan'' by Ibn Bakhtishu

14th-century poem by Hafez

13th-century poem by Rumi