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Author: A.J Arberry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-01-16
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1135799008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint 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.
Author: Olga M. Davidson
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674073203
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments.
Author: A. J. Arberry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1315452723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain’s most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in Persia after the fall of the Sᾱsᾱnian empire in the seventh century. It traces the course of this literature’s development and full maturity from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century and looks at a number of important writers including the Saljῡq poets, Rῡmῑ, ῌᾱfiz and Jᾱmῑ. This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.
Author: Firdawsī
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9780670034857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.
Author: J. T. P. de Bruijn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1136780564
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focuses on the poems rather than on their authors. Surveys the development of Persian mystical poetry, dealing first with the relation between Sufism and literature and then with the four main genres of the tradition: the epigram, the homiletic poem, love poetry and symbolic narrative.
Author: Wheeler McIntosh Thackston
Publisher: Ibex Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0936347503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A Millennium Of Classical Persian Poetry" is a guide to the reading & understanding of Persian poetry from the tenth to the twentieth century.
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-11-20
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0674067592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.
Author: J.T.P. Bruijn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2008-10-31
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0857736507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.
Author: Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9004277641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme.
