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This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from 650BCE through until the seventeenth century CE. It is a companion volume to the
Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature.
List of contents
1. A Review of the History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction
; 2.
Avesta and Avestan Literature (Sample); 3. A Semanatic Shift in the Official Documents of Pre-Islamic Iran: The Semantics of Power to the Semantics of Politeness (Sample); 4. Genre in Classical Persian Poetry (Sample); 5. Rudaki: The Father of Persian Poetry (Sample); 6. The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
(Sample); 7. Rob¿`¿y¿t of Omar Khayy¿m (Sample); 8. Ghazal: Form in Meaning (Sample); 9. Ni¿¿m¿ Ganjav¿: An Innovator of Persian Narrative Poetry (Sample); 10. Geographical Space and Historical Time Layers in Nizami Ganjavi's Works (Sample); 11. Erotic Narratives and ¿Att¿r's Refashioning of the Didactic
Masnavi (Sample); 12. Analysis of the ratio of poetry and Islamic mysticism in the formation of Molavi's personality (Sample); 13. Poetry and Patronage: Persian Literature During the Mongol Empire (Sample); 14. Sa'di of Shiraz (Sample); 15. Gendering Obeyd: Rereading Zakani's Sexual Satire (Sample); 16. Congruity of Structure and Content in Ghazals of Hafiz and Their Cultural and Historical Context (Sample); 17. Non-Ideological or Bibliomantic Readings of Hafiz's Poetry (Sample); 18. Jami: The Seal of the Great Poets or the Emblem of an Era? (Sample); 19. A Lost Literacy: Reading
Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 21st Century (Sample); 20. Persian-language Anthological Manuscripts: Typologies and Terminologies
(Sample); 21. The Grounds of Verse: A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism (Sample); 22. Persian-language literature in Dagestan: The Poetry of Hasan Alqadari (Sample); 23. Nizami Ganjavi and the Georgian Literature of 12th-18th Centuries (Sample)
About the author
Kamran Talattof is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies and the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.
Summary
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Persian literature from 650BCE through until the seventeenth century CE. It is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature.
