Editorial Note
Ehsan Yarshater
Abbreviations and Short Titles
I. Introductory Survey
1. The Development of Iranian Literatures
Ehsan Yarshater
II. Pre-Islamic Literatures
2. Literary Aspects of the Avesta
Dale Bishop
3. Manichaean Literature
Jes P. Asmussen
III. Classical Period
4. Court Poetry at the Beginning of the Classical Period
Jerome W. Clinton
5. Epic Poetry
William L. Hanaway
6. Ferdowsi and the Art of Tragic Epic
Amin Banani
7. Lyric Poetry
Heshmat Moayyad
8. 'Omar Khayyam
L. P. Elwell-Sutton
9. The Romance
J. C. Burgel
10. Nezami: Master Dramatist
Peter Chelkowski
11. Jalal al-Din Rumi: Passions of the Mystic Mind
Talat S. Halman
12. The Genius of Shiraz: Sa'di and Hafez
Annemarie Schimmel
13. Persian Satire, Parody and Burlesque
Paul Sprachman
14. The Indian Style: Progress or Decline?
Ehsan Yarshater
IV. Contemporary Literature of Iran
15. Persian Prose Fiction: An Iranian Mirror and Conscience
Michael C. Hillmann
16. Sadeq Hedayat: An Appraisal
Ehsan Yarshater
17. Contemporary Poetry in Iran
Massud Farzan
18. Forugh Farrokhzad
Farzaneh Milani
19. Modern Persian Drama
Gisele Kapuscinski
V. Persian Literature outside Iran
20. Persian Poetry in the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent
Annemarie Schimmel
21. Iqbal's Persian Poetry
Annemarie Schimmel
22. The Persian Literature of Afghanistan
Ashraf Ghani
23. Modern Tajik Literature
Keith Hitchins
VI. Translation of Persian Literature
24. Persian Literature in Translation
John D. Yohannan
25. Select Bibliography if Translations from Persian Literature
1. Classical Persian Literature
G. M. Wickens
2. Modernist Persian Literature
Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar, Michael C. Hillmann, and John D. Yohannan
Contributors
Index of Proper Names, with complete transliteration