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A History of Persian Literature Volume V Volumes of A History of Persian Literature I General Introduction to Persian Literature II Persian Lyric Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500 Ghazals, Panegyrics and Quatrains III Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800–1500 Romantic and Didactic Genres IV Heroic Epic The Shâh-nâme and its Legacy V Persian Prose VI Religious and Mystical Literature VII Persian Poetry, 1500–1900 From the Safavids to the Dawn of the Constitutional Movement VIII Persian Poetry in the Indian Subcontinent Divans, Biographical Anthologies and Literary Criticism IX Persian Literature from Outside Iran The Indian Subcontinent, Anatolia, Central Asia, and in Judeo-Persian X Persian Historiography XI Literature of the Early Twentieth Century From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah XII Modern Persian Poetry, 1940 to the Present Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan XIII Modern Fiction and Drama XIV Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Classical Period XV Biographies of the Poets and Writers of the Modern Period; Literary Terms XVI General Index Companion Volumes to A History of Persian Literature: XVII Companion Volume I: The Literature of Pre- Islamic Iran XVIII Companion Volume II: Oral Literature of Iranian Languages Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic, Persian and Tajik Anthologies: XIX Anthology I: A Selection of Persian Poems in English Translation XX Anthology II: A Selection of Persian Prose in English Translation A HISTORY OF PERSIAN LITERATURE Founding Editor—Ehsan Yarshater Volume V Persian Prose Edited by Bo Utas Sponsored by The Persian Heritage Foundation & The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University I.B. TAURIS Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 29 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland BLOOMSBURY, I.B. TAURIS and the I.B. Tauris logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2021 Copyright © 2021 The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York The right of The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to be identified as the originators of this work has been asserted by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. HB: 978-1-8451-1906-5 ePDF: 978-0-7556-1780-7 eBook: 978-0-7556-1781-4 Series: A History of Persian Literature, Volume V Layout and typesetting: Claudius Naumann Printed and bound in Great Britain from camera-ready copy edited and supplied by the Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters A History of Persian Literature Editorial Board Mohsen Ashtiany J. T. P. de Bruijn Dick Davis Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Franklin Lewis Paul Losensky CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii INTRODUCTION (Bo Utas) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii CHAPTER 1: A MEDIEVAL NEXUS: LOCATING ENSHÂ’ AND ITS ONTOLOGY IN THE PERSIANATE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION, 1000–1500 (Colin Mitchell) . 1 1.Locating Enshâ’ in the Formative Islamic Period (8 th–11 th Centuries) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.Continuity and Challenge: The Saljuq and Khwarazmian Era (1100–1200) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Dastur-e dabiri by Mohammad b. Abd-al-Khâleq Meyhani (d. ca. 576/1180) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Ketâb-e atabat al-katabe (compiled shortly after 528/1133) by Montajab-al-Din Badi’ Joveyni . . . . . . . . 20 Al-Tavassol elâ’l-tarassol by Bahâ’-al-Din Mohammad b. Mo’ayyed Baghdâdi (d. 588/1192) . . . . . . . . 24 Arâ’es al-khavâter va nafâ’es al-navâder by Rashid-al- Din Vatvât (d. 578/1182–83) . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3. Innovative Impulses: The Mongol Era (1250–1400) . . . . . . 35 Rowzat al-kottâb va hadiqat al-albâb by Abu-Bakr Ebn-al-Zaki Motatabbeb Qonavi (ca. 678/1279) . 35 Dastur al-kâteb fi ta’yin al-marâteb by Mohammad b. Hendushâh Nakhjavâni (d. after 768/1366) . . . . 42 Tohfe-ye Jalâliyye (ca. 708–716/1308–1316) by Hakim-al- Din Mohammad b. Ali al-Nâmus Khwâri . . . . 50 4.Retrenchment and Replication: The Timurid Period (1400–1500) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Resâle-ye qavânin by Mo’in-al-Din Mohammad Zamchi Esfezâri (d. 915/1510) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mansha’ al-enshâ’ by Nezâm-al-Din Abd-al-Vâse’ Nezâmi Bâkharzi (d. 909/1503) . . . . . . . . . . 76 vii PERSIAN PROSE Makhzan al-enshâ’ by Hoseyn Vâ’ez Kâshefi (d. 910/1504–5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Primary Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Secondary Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 CHAPTER 2: ADVICE LITERATURE (Louise Marlow) . . . . 97 1.Continuities and Interactions among the Pahlavi, Ara bic, and Persian Advisory Literatures . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 2.Moralizing Sentences and Collections of Sententiae . . . . . 102 3. Collections of Narratives and Cycles of Stories . . . . . . . . 111 4. Mirrors for Princes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 5. Ethical Treatises (Akhlâq) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 CHAPTER 3: RESÂLE, MAQÂLE, AND KETÂB: AN OVERVIEW OF PERSIAN EXPOSITORY AND ANALYTICAL PROSE (Ali Gheissari) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 1.Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Prose and Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 2.Classical and Formative Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Mystical and Meditative Prose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 3. Early Modern and Modern Periods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Philosophers after Molla Sadrâ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Religious Practical Tracts: Resâle-ye amaliyye . . . . . . . 190 Safavid and Qajar Epistolary Tracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Monsha’ât-e Soleymâni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Vajizat al-tahrir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Parvaz-e negâresh-e Pârsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Post-Safavid Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Hâjj Mollâ Hâdi Sabzavâri and Asrâr al-hekam. . . . 198 Âqâ Ali Modarres Tehrâni’s Badâye’ al-hekam . . . . 199 Reform Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Mirzâ Yusof Khân Tabrizi’s Yak kaleme . . . . . . . . 202 viii

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