Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about Khosrow and Shirin shares a shelf with the most intensely romantic classic…

Rostam is Iran’s greatest mythological hero, a Persian Hercules, magnificent in strength and courage. This book begins with the birth of Rostam’s father and ends with Rostam’s death. The tales…

For its subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, the verse of the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami has been compared to that of Shakespeare, and in the same way that Romeo and…

The Layered Heart Essays on Persian Poetry is published in celebration of the poet and scholar Dick Davis, dubbed our pre-eminent translator from Persian by The Washington Post. Edited by…

Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable…

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era.

Mary Caroline Davies - Songs of a Girl & Other Verses Public Domain Poets #4 ‘Songs of a Girl & Other Verses’ brings together over 100 of Mary Carolyn Davies’…

Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation, and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th…