Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. The Making of a Literary Humanism 1
5. 1. The Dawn of an Iranian World in an Islamic Universe 42
6. 2. The Persian Presence in the Early Islamic Empires 70
7. 3. The Prose and Poetry of the World 98
8. 4. The Triumph of the Word 131
9. 5. The Lure and Lyrics of a Literature 165
10. 6. The Contours of a Literary Cosmopolitanism 191
11. 7. The Dawn of New Empires 224
12. 8. The Final Frontiers 263
13. Conclusion 301
14. Notes 329
15. Acknowledgments 359
16. Index 361