The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

Companion Volume I to A History of Persian Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID19915776
EditorsEhsan Yarshater, Maria Macuch, Ronald E Emmerick
Year2009
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755610402
OpenAlexW632532094
Open LibraryOL37093863M
ISBN9780755610402
LanguageEN
Citations received8

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Extant taxon · Islam · Library science · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar) · Persian · Persian literature · Subject (documents) · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy · Altpersisch · Avestisch · History and criticism · Iranian literature · Literary studies: classical, early & medieval · Literatur · Manichäer · Mittelpersisch · Old persian inscriptions · Pahlavi literature · Sakisch · Sogdisch

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