Ehsan Yarshater

Encyclopædia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Coffeehouse

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Dārā(B) - Ebn al-at̲īr

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Ebn ʻAyyāš

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Giōni

The Encyclopaedia Iranica covers topics related not only to modern Persia but also to the whole Iranian cultural world, including in-depth treatment of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kurdistan. Articles also delve into historical and cultural relations with nations such as Egypt, Britain, India, and China. Spanning ancient, medieval, and modern times, the Encyclopaedia reveals the geographical, archaeological, cultural, religious, governmental, and biographical details that have left their mark on Iranian society.

Peter Jackson

Peter Avery

William Bayne Fisher

J. A. Boyle

Ilya Gershevitch

W. B. Fisher

R. N. Frye

Volume I is devoted to the geography, geology, anthropology, economic life, and flora and fauna, setting the physical stage for the human events which follow.

The Cambridge History of Iran

Fatemeh Keshavarz

Ahmet Karamustafa

History of Persian Literature A

Religious and Mystical Literature

Encyclopedia Iranica

Encyclopaedia Iranica: Ethé

Iḥsān Yāršātir

In this unique survey, twenty-one scholars examine Persian imaginative literature, bringing out its historical development through discussions of genres and styles. Ehsan Yarshater's introductory essay places the various phases of Iran's literatures in perspective. It also expands on some areas of interest touched upon in the ensuing chapters, notably Old and Middle Persian literature. In a second essay, Yarshater explains the progression of the classical tradition from a robust youth to an effete old age, before moving on to a new beginning. Significant writers are highlighted in separate chapters. The book's sections include: introductory survey, pre-Islamic literatures, the classical period, contemporary literature of Iran, Persian literature outside Iran, and the translation of Persian literature.

Persian Literature

This encyclopedia presents alphabetically arranged scholarly articles "on topics of archeological, geographic, ethnographic, historical, artistic, literary, religious, linguistic, philosophical, scientific, and folkloric interest. ... The time span covered ... extends from prehistory to the present; however, biographies of living persons are excluded." -- Introduction.

Surveys Iranian history and culture and its contribution to the civilization of the world. Covers religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilization.

John Andrew Boyle

Richard Nelson Frye

P. Avery

G. R. G. Hambly

C. Melville

Iran from 1722-1979: political, social, economic and religious aspects of Iran.

Ehsan Yarshater

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