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Poetry and romance from the Persian tradition, set for reading rather than for reference.
Persian narrative poetry was, for several centuries, the most widely imitated literature between the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal. Its stories were retold in Turkish, Urdu, and Ottoman Greek; its images became the common property of half a continent.
In English it survives mostly in Victorian translations that nobody has introduced since. This series sets these works properly and says what they are for.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
Manuscript material presented as the object it is — the hand, the page, the illumination — with annotation for readers who were never taught to look at script.
See the series → 2 titlesThe arguments about mind, soul, and reality that occupied Islamic thought for centuries — set with introductions for readers coming to them cold.
See the series → 1 titleNovels and essays in English that are met too early, in editions nobody chose, and rarely returned to.
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