MID E 6362 - Survey of Early Islamic, Medieval, and Modern Persian Literature

Meets with PERS 4620 and MID E 4362. Additional work required of graduate students. Second semester in a two-semester sequence. Persian literature from ninth to 19th century; new trends in contemporary prose and poetry. In-depth study of the prose and poetry traditions of Persian literature within the historical frameworks of Perso-Islamic and early modern Iran.