The world of Persian literary humanism
By: Hamid Dabashi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780674066717
Subjects: History and criticism; Humanism in literature; Persian literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the making of a literary humanism; title: The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750); title: The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258); title: The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194); title: The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353); title: The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508); title: The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732); title: The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924); title: The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present); title: Conclusion.