The World of Persian Literary Humanism / / Hamid Dabashi.
What does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed examination of a vast literary tradition, Hamid Dabashi asks that question anew, from a non-European point of view. The answers are fresh, provocative, and deeply transformative...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. The Making of a Literary Humanism
- 1. The Dawn of an Iranian World in an Islamic Universe
- 2. The Persian Presence in the Early Islamic Empires
- 3. The Prose and Poetry of the World
- 4. The Triumph of the Word
- 5. The Lure and Lyrics of a Literature
- 6. The Contours of a Literary Cosmopolitanism
- 7. The Dawn of New Empires
- 8. The Final Frontiers
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index