Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Terminology, Transliteration and Sources vii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. A Prison Poem Lexicon x
7. Chronology of Poets, Rulers, Texts and Critics xiv
8. Map of Ghaznavid South and West Asia xvi
9. Introduction: The Persian Poet’s Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Poetics 1
10. 1 The Prison Poem and the Politics of Genre 30
11. 2 The Lyric Poet’s Body 59
12. 3 Borderland Conflicts, Cosmological Complaints 87
13. 4 The Prison Poet as King and Prophet 125
14. 5 Crucifixion as Critique 156
15. 6 The Sovereign and the Poet’s Body 207
16. Epilogue: Incarceration, Metonymy, Modernity 251
17. Appendix: Khaqani’s Six Prison Poems 258
18. List of Abbreviations 260
19. Bibliography 262
20. Index 287