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IBT Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature

1. Introduction: Connected Literary History. The Corpus: Why Study Literature as a Whole? Parallel Establishments: The Arabic Cosmopolis and the Persianate World. Past Studies. Migration, Mobility, and the World of the Seventeenth Century

2. First Chapter: Society in Motion. Patterns in Migration. Persian in Arabia, Arabic in Persia, and 'this Arabic-Persian-Hindu land'. The Biographical Anthologies: Memorialising Literary Networks. Connected Authors: A Survey of the Major Networks

3. Second Chapter: Mecca-Deccan-Iran. Ibn Ma??um: Background and Outlook. Building a Network in the Deccan: the Arabic Literary Circle of Ni?am al-Din A?mad.

4. Third Chapter: India-Yemen. The Indian Blade: the life of al-?arim al-Hindi. Cosmopolitan ?ana?a: al-?arim al-Hindi and his Peers. Praise of the Imams: al-?arim al-Hindi and the Courts of Yemen

5. Fourth Chapter: Syria-Iran and India. Baha? al-Din al-?Amili: The Bilingual Audience of the Kashkul. Beyond Iran: The ?Amili Migration to India. Translating the Kashkul into Persian in Qu?bshahi Golkonda

6. Fifth Chapter: Iran-Deccan-North India. Salik Yazdi and Faraj Allah al-Shushtari: a collective biography. Form and the Making of Meaning in Golkonda. Shared Audiences: A Dialogue Between Salik and Faraj Allah

7. Sixth Chapter: Central Asia and India

Isfahan. Émigré Writers in Safavid Isfahan. The Case of Mali?a. Writing as a Communal Venture: The Commonplaces.

8. Seventh Chapter: Iran

North India

Iran. The Return Trips of Ilahi and ?a?ib to India. Patronage and Authorship: The Poets' Relationships with ?afar Khan A?san and ?Inayat Khan Ashna. Isfahan Once More.

9. Conclusion.

10. Sigla of the manuscripts used, and brief descriptions of them.

11. Bibliography.

12. Indices.

Arabic literature > 17th century > History and criticism.

Persian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.