Daqiqi (or Dakiki), Abu Mansur (935–980)

Persian poet. He was court poet to Nuh II of the Samanid dynasty. Only a few fragments of Daqiqi's lyric verse remain. He was asked by Nuh to turn the Pahlavi Khudhay-namak (Book of Kings) into Persian verse, but was assassinated before he could finish it.

Firdausi, who continued and completed the work begun by Daqiqi, incorporated about 1,000 of the earlier poet's verses into his great epic Shahnama; he claimed that Daqiqi asked him in a dream to do so.