The world of Persian literary humanism
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the making of a literary humanism
- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750)
- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258)
- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194)
- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353)
- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508)
- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732)
- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924)
- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present)
- Conclusion.