Classical Persian Literature
Title | Classical Persian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | A.J Arberry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 347 |
Release | 2006-01-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135799008 |
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.
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics
Title | Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Olga M. Davidson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Comparative literature |
ISBN | 9780674073203 |
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.
Shahnameh
Title | Shahnameh PDF eBook |
Author | Firdawsī |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 936 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780670034857 |
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.
Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958)
Title | Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958) PDF eBook |
Author | A. J. Arberry |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1315452723 |
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.
A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry
Title | A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Wheeler McIntosh Thackston |
Publisher | Ibex Publishers, Inc. |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0936347503 |
"A Millennium Of Classical Persian Poetry" is a guide to the reading & understanding of Persian poetry from the tenth to the twentieth century.
Persian Sufi Poetry
Title | Persian Sufi Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | J. T. P. de Bruijn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136780564 |
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.
Classical Persian Litterature
Title | Classical Persian Litterature PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur John Arberry |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 1958 |
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