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An exhaustive examination of the history of Persian prose literature

Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: A MEDIEVAL NEXUS: LOCATING ENSHA’ AND ITS ONTOLOGY IN THE PERSIANATE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, 1000–1500 (Colin Mitchell) CHAPTER 2: ADVICE LITERATURE (Louise Marlow) CHAPTER 3: RESÂLE, MAQÂLE, AND KETÂB: AN OVERVIEW OF PERSIAN EXPOSITORY AND ANALYTICAL PROSE (Ali Gheissari) CHAPTER 4: SCIENCE IN PERSIAN (Ziva Vesel in collaboration with Sonja Brentjes) CHAPTER 5: CALLIGRAPHY (Francis Richard) CHAPTER 6: CONSIDERATIONS ON LITERARY ASPECTS OF PERSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (Bert Fragner) CHAPTER 7: BIOGRAPHICAL WRITING: TADHKERE AND MANÂQEB (Paul Losensky) CHAPTER 8: STORIES AND TALES: ENTERTAINMENT AS LITERATURE (Mehran Afshari) CHAPTER 9: POPULAR ANECDOTES AND SATIRE (Mehran Afshari) CHAPTER 10: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN PERSIAN PROSE: FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY (Iraj Parsinejad) ABBREVIATIONS INDEX

About the Author

Bo Utas is Professor Emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published on a wide array of subjects within Iranian linguistics, literature and religion including Arabic and Iranian elements in New Persian prosody, Arabic prosody and its applications in Muslim poetry, (1994) and The aesthetic use of New Persian (1998). Ehsan Yarshater was the Director of the Center for Iranian Studies and Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Columbia University and the Founding Editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.