Classical Persian LiteratureReprint of a classic text, this volume gives an insight into the rebirth of national literature in the national language and traces the course of its development and full maturity from the beginning of the ninth to the end of the fifteenth century. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
From the Beginnings to Firdausī | 17 |
The Ghaznavids and Early Saljūqs | 35 |
The Middle Saljūqs | 54 |
Five Saljūq Poets | 78 |
Some Historians of the Thirteenth Century | 100 |
Medieval Persian Fiction | 116 |
Sadī of Shīraz | 130 |
The Mongol Aftermath | 192 |
Some FourteenthCentury Poets | 211 |
Hafiz | 233 |
Tīmūrid Historians | 259 |
FifteenthCentury Poets | 279 |
Jāmī | 300 |
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