The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

Datos de la Revista

TipoSOURCE_BOOK
EditorialI.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd
ISBN-139780755610402
Open LibraryOL27321824W
Total de publicaciones5
Periodo de cobertura2009 - 2009
IdiomaEN

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves.“A History of Persian Literature” answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. The main object of this companion volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages - the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the rich resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets