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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- 1 A Review of the History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction -- 2 Avesta and Avestan Literature -- Sample Literature for Chapter 2 -- 3 A Stylistic Shift in the Official Documents of Pre-Islamic Iran: The Semantics of Power to the Semantics of Politeness -- Sample Literature for Chapter 3 -- 4 Genre in Classical Persian Poetry -- Sample Literature for Chapter 4 -- 5 Rudaki: Father of Persian Poetry -- Sample Literature for Chapter 5 -- 6 The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi -- Sample Literature for Chapter 6 -- 7 Robā'īyāt of Omar Khayyām -- Sample Literature for Chapter 7 -- 8 Ghazal: Form in Meaning -- Sample Literature for Chapter 8 -- 9 Niẓāmī Ganjavī: An Innovator of Persian Narrative Poetry -- Sample Literature for Chapter 9 -- 10 Geographical Space and Historical Time Layers in Nizami Ganjavi's Works -- Sample Literature for Chapter 10 -- 11 Erotic Narratives and ʿAttār's Refashioning of the Didactic Masnavi -- Sample Literature for Chapter 11 -- 12 Analysis of the Ratio of Poetry and Islamic Mysticism in the Formation of Rumi's Personality -- Sample Literature for Chapter 12 -- 13 Poetry and Patronage: Persian Literature During the Mongol Empire -- Sample Literature for Chapter 13 -- 14 Sa'di of Shiraz -- Sample Literature for Chapter 14 -- 15 Gendering Obeyd: Rereading Zakani's Sexual Satire -- Sample Literature for Chapter 15 -- 16 Congruity of Structure and Content in the Ghazals of Hafiz and Their Cultural and Historical Context -- Sample Literature for Chapter 16 -- 17 Non-Ideological or Bibliomantic Reading of Hafiz's Poetry -- Sample Literature for Chapter 17 -- 18 Jami: The Seal of the Great Poets or the Emblem of an Era? -- Sample Literature for Chapter 18. 19 A Lost Literacy: Reading Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 21st Century -- Sample Literature for Chapter 19 -- 20 Persian-Language Anthological Manuscripts: Typologies and Terminologies -- Sample Literature for Chapter 20 -- 21 The Grounds of Verse: A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism -- Sample Literature for Chapter 21 -- 22 Persian-Language Literature in Dagestan: The Poetry of Hasan Alqadari -- Sample Literature for Chapter 22 -- 23 Nizami Ganjavi and Georgian Literature of the 12th-18th Centuries -- Sample Literature for Chapter 23 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.