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Informationen zum Autor Ehsan Yarshater is the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies! Columbia University and the Founding Editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Mohsen Ashtiany has taught Persian literature at Harvard University! the University of Oxford! the University of Manchester and the University of California at Los Angeles. He is also the author of numerous articles in the field of Persian studies. Klappentext The authors explore the development of poetic genres! from the panegyric qaside! to short lyrical poems (ghazal)! and the quatrains (roba'i)! tracing the stylistic evolution of Persian poetry between 800-1500 and offering an essential examination of the vital role these poetic forms play within the rich landscape of Persian Literature. Zusammenfassung The authors explore the development of poetic genres! from the panegyric qaside! to short lyrical poems (ghazal)! and the quatrains (roba'i)! tracing the stylistic evolution of Persian poetry between 800-1500 and offering an essential examination of the vital role these poetic forms play within the rich landscape of Persian Literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Ehsan Yarshater; Introduction - Ehsan Yarshater & Mohsen Ashtiany; Chapter 1: The Panegyric Qaside in the Eastern Iranian World: in Samanid and Ghaznavid Periods - Julie Meisami; Chapter 2: Qaside Writers of the Saljuqid Court - J.T.P. de Bruijn; Chapter 3: Panegyric under the Kharazmshahids - Alireza Korangy-Isfahani; Chapter 4: The Arrani and Azerbaijani Qaside Writers of the 12th century - Mohmmad Estelami; Chapter 5: Qaside in the Mongol and Timurid Periods - Majddedin Keyvani; Chapter 6: Roba'i (Quatrain) 1- The Khayyamid Quatrains - Francois de Blois 2- Post-Khayyamian Quatrain - Asghar Seyed-Gohrab; Chapter 7: The Ghazal - Franklin Lewis
