Classical Persian Literature

by A.J Arberry

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700702763
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/17/1995
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

I. Introduction, II. From the Beginnings to Firdaus!, III. The Ghaznavids and Early Saljuqs, IV. The Middle Saljuqs, V. Five Saljuq Poets, VI. Some Historians of the Thirteenth Century, VII. Medieval Persian Fiction, VIII. Sadi of Shiraz, IX. Rumi, X. Minor Thirteenth-Century Authors, XI. The Mongol Aftermath, XII. Some Fourteenth-Century Poets, XIII. Hafiz, XIV. Timurid Historians, XV. Fifteenth-Century Poets, XVI. Jami, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX