ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|18 pages

From the Beginnings to Firdausī

chapter 3|19 pages

The Ghaznavids and Early Saljūqs

chapter 4|24 pages

The Middle Saljūqs

chapter 5|22 pages

Five Saljūq Poets

chapter 6|16 pages

Some Historians of the Thirteenth Century

chapter 7|14 pages

Medieval Persian Fiction

chapter 8|20 pages

Sa‘dī of Shīraz

chapter 9|20 pages

R"m!

chapter 10|22 pages

Minor Thirteenth-Century Authors

chapter 11|19 pages

The Mongol Aftermath

chapter 12|22 pages

Some Fourteenth-Century Poets

chapter 13|26 pages

Hafiz

chapter 4|20 pages

XIVT!m"rid Historians

chapter 15|21 pages

Fifteenth-Century Poets

chapter 6|19 pages

J#m!