A History of Persian Literature

PUBLICATIONS: A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE

 Volume I: A General Introduction to Persian Literature, edited by J.T.P de Bruijn (2009)

Volume II: Persian Lyric Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Ghazals, Panegyrics and Quatrains, edited by Ehsan Yarshater (2019)

Volume III: Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, edited by Mohsen Ashtiany (2023)

Volume V: Persian Prose, edited by Bo Utas (2021)

Volume IX: Persian Literature from Outside Iran: The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia, Central Asia, and in Judeo-Persian, edited by John R. Perry (2018)

Volume X: Persian Historiography, edited by Charles Melville (2012)

Volume XI: Literature of the Early Twentieth Century From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah, edited by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (2015)

Volume XVII: Companion Volume I: The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran, edited by Ronald E. Emmerick and Maria Macuch (2009)

Volume XVIII: Companion Volume II: Oral Literature of Iranian Languages, edited by Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Ulrich Marzolph (2010)

A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE: PROJECTED VOLUMES

Volume IV: Heroic Epic (the Shahnameh and its Legacy)

Volume VI: Religious and Mystical Literature

Volume VII: Persian Poetry, 1500-1900 (From the Safavids to the dawn of the Constitutional Movement)

Volume VIII: Persian Poetry in the Indian Subcontinent (Divans, Biographical Anthologies, and Literary Criticism)

Volume XII: Modern Persian Poetry, 1940 to the Present (Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan)

Volume XIII: Modern Fiction and Drama

Volume XIV: Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Classical Period

Volume XV: Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Modern Period; Literary Terms

Volume XVI: General Index

Volume XIX: A Selection of Poems in English Translation

Volume XX: A Selection of Persian Prose in English Translation

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