The World of Persian Literary Humanism /

The World of Persian Literary Humanism / / Hamid Dabashi.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Dabashi, Hamid,
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

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