A Literary History of Persia

Table of Contents

Part I. On the Origins and General History of the People, Languages, and Literatures of Persia:
1. Introduction
2. The discovery and interpretation of the inscriptions and documents of Ancient Persia, with other philological matter
3. The pre-Muhammadan literature of the Persians, with some account of their legendary history, as set forth in the book of the Kings
Part II. On the History of Persia from the Rise of the Sasanian to the Fall of the Umayyad Dynasty (AD 226–750):
4. The Sasanian period (AD 226–652)
5. The Arab invasion
6. The Umayyad period (AD 661–749)
Part III. On the Early Abbasid Period, or Golden Age of Islam:
7. General characteristics of the golden age of Islam from the accession of As-Saffah to the death of Al-Wathiq
8. The developments of religion and philosophy in the golden age of Islam
9. The great Persian heresiarchs of this period
Part IV. On the First Period of the Decline of the Caliphate, from the Accession of Al-Mutawakkil to the Accession of sultan Mahmud of Ghazna (AD 850–1000):
10. The General Phenomena of the first period of the decline of the caliphate (AD 847–1000), from the accession of Al-Mutawakkil to the accession of Mahmud of Ghazna
11. The state of Muslim literature and science at the beginning of the Ghaznawi period
12. Religious movements of this period I
13. Religious movements of this period II
14. The literature of Persia during this period
Bibliography
Index.