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A History of Persian Literature

Volume II

Volumes of A History of Persian Literature

I	General Introduction to Persian Literature
II	Persian Lyric Poetry in the Classical Era, 8001500 Ghazals, Panegyrics and Quatrains
III	Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 8001500 Romantic and Didactic Genres
IV	Heroic Epic
The Shahnameh and its Legacy
V	Persian Prose
VI	Religious and Mystical Literature
VII	Persian Poetry, 15001900
From the Safavids to the Dawn of the Constitutional Movement
VIII	Persian Poetry in the Indian Subcontinent
Divans, Biographical Anthologies and Literary Criticism
IX	Persian Literature from Outside Iran
The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia, Central Asia, and in Judeo-Persian
X	Persian Historiography
XI	Literature of the Early Twentieth Century
From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah
XII	Modern Persian Poetry, 1940 to the Present
Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
XIII	Modern Fiction and Drama
XIV	Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Classical Period
XV	Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Modern Period; Literary Terms
XVI	General Index
Companion Volumes to A History of Persian Literature:
XVII	Companion Volume I: The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran
XVIII	Companion Volume II: Oral Literature of Iranian Languages Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik
Anthologies:
XIX	Anthology I: A Selection of Persian Poems in English Translation
XX	Anthology II: A Selection of Persian Prose in English Translation

A History of Persian Literature

Editorial Board

MOHSEN ASHTIANY

J. T. P. DE BRUIJN

DICK DAVIS

AHMAD KARIMI-HAKKAK

FRANKLIN LEWIS

PAUL LOSENSKY

A Note from the Editorial Board of
A History of Persian Literature

The editor of the present volume, Professor Ehsan Yarshater, passed away in September 2018, while the volume was in its final stages of preparation. He had already written the foreword and a note about the volume.

As the founder of the series A History of Persian Literature and the chairman of its board of editors, Professor Yarshater took an active interest in all the volumes in the series. The steady production and success of the volumes published so far owe a great deal to his formidable energy and erudition.

That he himself should have decided to single out to edit the volume on lyrical poetry should not come as a surprise to those familiar with his writings. His love of music and poetry had instilled in him a life-long appreciation of lyrical poetry. In his entry on the characteristics and conventions of the ghazal in the Encyclopdia Iranica, he referred to the ghazal as the most intense expression of love and beauty, with a universality of application peculiar to itself. These observations on manifold aspects of lyric poetry, further developed in a later entry, an Overview of Hafez, bear all the hallmarks of his scholarship: deep learning and acute critical observations.

And they offer even more: he manages to maintain a soberly analytical tone befitting a contribution to a reference work, along with a distinctly defiant and idiosyncratic voice: rejoicing in the subtle wit with which poetry could do the work of theology liberated from its stultifying pieties and pretenses.

Professor Yarshater passed away before writing his intended introduction. What he has left behind enhances our sense of loss.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: THE PANEGYRICAL QASIDEA BRIEF
HISTORICAL PREVIEW (J. T. P. de Bruijn)

CHAPTER 2: THE PANEGYRIC QASIDE IN THE EASTERN
IRANIAN WORLD: COURT POETRY IN THE SAMANID
AND GHAZNAVID PERIODS (Julie Scott Meisami)

CHAPTER 3: THE QASIDE AFTER THE FALL OF THE
GHAZNAVIDS 11001500 CE (J. T. P. de Bruijn)

CHAPTER 4: QASIDES OF THE KHWRAZMSHHID
COURT: VATVT AND ADIB SBER (Alireza Korangy)

CHAPTER 5: THE QASIDE IN WESTERN PERSIA
PERSIAN POETRY GOES WEST (J. T. P. de Bruijn)

CHAPTER 6: THE QASIDE IN THE MONGOL
AND TIMURID PERIODS (M. Keyvani)

CHAPTER 8: THE GHAZAL IN MEDIEVAL PERSIAN
POETRY (J. T. P. de Bruijn)

CHAPTER 9: THE FLOURISHING OF PERSIAN
QUATRAINS (A. A. Seyed-Gohrab)

ABBREVIATIONS OF BOOKS AND
JOURNALS FREQUENTLY CITED

Johannes Thomas Pieter de Bruijn is Professor Emeritus of Persian at the University of Leiden. His publications include Of Piety and Poetry (1983, on Sani of Ghazna), Persian Sufi Poetry (1997), a Dutch translation of Sadis Golestn (1997); an anthology of classical Persian poetry (2002), and articles on Persian literature and the history of Persian studies in Europe. He is a contributor to the Encyclopdia of Islam and the Encyclopdia Iranica, the Consulting Editor of the latter for Persian Classical Literature, and the Vice-Chairman of the Editorial Board of A History of Persian Literature.

Majdoddin Keyvani is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics and Translation at Kharazmi University, Tehran and a member of the Higher Scientific Council of the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia. He is the author of several books in the areas of the principles of learning and teaching languages, psychology, education, mysticism, Sufism and history and literature. He is also a distinguished translator. Among his translations are A. H. Zarrinkubs Persian Sufism in its Historical Perspective (2002) into Persian and Pelleh pelleh t molqt-e Khod into English as Step by Step up to Union with God (2009), and the first volume of A History of Persian Literature into Persian (2010).

Alireza Korangy has been assistant professor of classical Persian and contemporary Iranian linguistics at the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2007 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent books include Development of the Ghazal and Khaqanis Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12 th c. Poetic Harbinger (2013) and an edited volume, Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016).

Julie Scott Meisami has taught at the University of Tehran (197280), the University of California, Berkeley (198182), and was University Lecturer in Persian at Oxford University (19852002) until her retirement. She now lives in California. She has published several books, including Medieval Persian Court Poetry (1987), Persian Historiography to the End of the 12 th Century

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