Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature

Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature. Edited by Kamran Talattof. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2023 (Box)

Contents

• 1 A Review of the History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction 1 Kamran Talattof
• 2 Avesta and Avestan Literature 17 Shima Jaafari-Dehaghi
• 3 A Stylistic Shift in the Ofcial Documents of Pre-Islamic Iran: The Semantics of Power to the Semantics of Politeness 44 Narges Nematollahi
• 4 Genre in Classical Persian Poetry 77 Matthew Thomas Miller
• 5 Rudaki: Father of Persian Poetry 122 Sassan Tabatabai
• 6 The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi 148 Olga M. Davidson
• 7 Robā’īyāt of Omar Khayyām 187 Juan Cole
• 8 Ghazal: Form in Meaning 203 Alireza Korangy
• 9 Niẓāmī Ganjavī: An Innovator of Persian Narrative Poetry 245 A. A. Seyed-Gohrab
• 10 Geographical Space and Historical Time Layers in Nizami Ganjavi’s Works 257 Hamlet Isaxanli
• 11 Erotic Narratives and ʿAttār’s Refashioning of the Didactic Masnavi 287 Austin O’Malley
• 12 Analysis of the Ratio of Poetry and Islamic Mysticism in the Formation of Rumi’s Personality 313 Seyyed Ali Asghar Mirbagherifard
• 13 Poetry and Patronage: Persian Literature During the Mongol Empire 335 Kacey Evilsizor
• 14 Sa’di of Shiraz 344 Kourosh Kamali Sarvestani
• 15 Gendering Obeyd: Rereading Zakani’s Sexual Satire 369 Mostafa Abedinifard
• 16 Congruity of Structure and Content in the Ghazals of Hafz and Their Cultural and Historical Context 395 Manizheh Abdollahi
• 17 Non-Ideological or Bibliomantic Reading of Hafz’s Poetry 417 Saeedeh Shahnahpur
• 18 Jami: The Seal of the Great Poets or the Emblem of an Era? 434 Kamran Talattof
• 19 A Lost Literacy: Reading Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 21st Century 455 Kevin Schwartz
• 20 Persian-Language Anthological Manuscripts: Typologies and Terminologies 471 Denise-Marie Teece
• 21 The Grounds of Verse: A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism 503 Jane Mikkelson
• 22 Persian-Language Literature in Dagestan: The Poetry of Hasan Alqadari - Patimat Alibekova
• 23 Nizami Ganjavi and Georgian Literature of the 12th–18th Centuries - Gaga Lomidze
• Bibliography
• Index