Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. The Mongol Il-Kháns of Persia, from the Death of Húlágú to the Extinction of the Dynasty (AH 663–737 = AD 1265–1337): 1. The Mongol Il-kháns of Persia (AD 1265–1337); 2. The historians of the Il-kháni period; 3. The poets and mystics of the Il-kháni period; Part II. From the Birth to the Death of Tímúr-I-Lang, Commonly Called Tamerlane (AH 736–807 = AD 1335–1405): 4. The period of Tímúr; 5. The poets and writers of the time of Tímúr; Part III. From the Death of Tímúr to the Rise of the Safawí Dynasty (AH 807–907 = AD 1405–1502): 6. History of the Later Tímúrid Period; 7. Prose writers of the later Tímúrid period; 8. Poets of the later Tímúrid period; Index.

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Originally published in 1920, this book was written by Edward Granville Browne as the continuation of his Literary History of Persia (1906).