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History of Iranian Literature

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  • © 1968

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Authors:
  1. Jan Rypka
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Editors:
  1. Karl Jahn

    1. University of Leyden, Netherlands

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Table of contents (53 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages n3-xxvii
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  2. Avesta. Ancient Persian Inscriptions. Middle Persian Literature

    1. Ancient Eastern-Iranian Culture

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 3-17

    2. The Culture of the Ancient Medes and Persians

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 18-24

    3. The Middle Persian Era

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 25-65

    4. The Period of Transition to New Persian Literature (The Advance of Islam and the Beginnings of New Persian)

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 66-67

  3. History of Persian Literature up to the Beginning of the 20th Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Introduction

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 71-125

    3. The Beginnings of Persian Literature

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 126-138

    4. The Samanids (Middle of 3rd/9th century to end of 4th/ 10th)

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 139-171

    5. The Ghaznavid Period (5th/11th century)

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 172-182

    6. The Seljuq Period (5th /11th to 6th /12th century)

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 183-219

    7. The Prose of the Seljuq Period (5th–6th/11th–12th century)

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 220-225

    8. Şūfism

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 226-245

    9. The Mongols

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 246-278

    10. Tīmūr and His Successors

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 279-290

    11. The Safavids

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 291-304

    12. The Turbulent 12th/18th Century

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 305-310

    13. Literary and Associated Species of Prose During the 7th–12TH/13th–18th Centuries

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 311-319

    14. The 13th/19th Century

      • Jan Rypka
      Pages 320-351

  4. Persian Literature of the 20th Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
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About this book

Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence. Such a work must obviously contain as many novel features as possible, so that a short explanation of what my collaborators and I had in mind when planning the book is perhaps not superfluous. In the first place our object was to present a short summary of the material in all its aspects, and secondly to review the subject from the chronological, geo­ graphical and substantial standpoints - all within the compass of a single volume. Such a scheme precludes a formal and complete enumeration of names and phenom­ ena, and renders all the greater the obligation to accord most prominence to matters deemed to be of greatest importance, supplementing these with such figures and forms as will enable an impression to be gained of the period in question - all this is far as possible in the light of the most recent discoveries. A glance at the table of contents will suffice to give an idea of the multifarious approach that has been our aim. We begin at the very first traces of evidence bearing on our subject and continue the narrative up to the present day. Geographically the book embraces Iran and its neighbouring countries, while it should be remarked that Iranian literature in its fullest sense also includes Indo-Persian and Judeo-Persian works.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Leyden, Netherlands

    Karl Jahn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: History of Iranian Literature

  • Authors: Jan Rypka

  • Editors: Karl Jahn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3479-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1968

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0143-5Published: 31 July 1968

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3481-4Published: 15 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3479-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVI, 928

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: Language and Literature, Regional and Cultural Studies, History, general

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