文档介绍：HISTORY OF IRANIAN LITERATURE
JAN RYPKA
HISTORY OF IRANIAN
LITERATURE
Written in collaboration with
OTAKAR KLIMA, VERA KUBICKOvA, FELIX TAUER,
nIH BECKA, nIH CEJPEK,
JAN MAREK, I. HRBEK AND J. T. P. DE BRUUN
Edited by
KARL JAHN
(University of Leyden)
D. REIDEL PANY
DORDRECHT-HOLLAND
DEJINY PERSKE A TADZICKE LITERATURY
First'published by Nakladatelstvi Ceskoslovenske akademie ved, Praha 1956
Translated from the German by P. van Popta-Hope, and enlarged and revised by the authors
© 1968. D. Reidel pany, Dordrecht, Holland
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1968
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint,
microfilm, or any other means, without permission from the publisher
ISBN-13: 978-94-010-3481-4 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-3479-1
DOl: -94-010-3479-1
Frontispiece:
The Prophet, seated on Buraq, passing over the Ka'bah at a on his miraculous night-journey.
From Or. 6810, a copy of the Khamseh of Ni'l'iimi dated 900/1494-5, which bears autograph notes
of the Mughal Emperors Jahiingir and Shah Jahan. (By courtesy ofthe Trustees ofthe British Museum.)
OTAKAR KLIMA
AVESTA. ANCIENT PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS
MIDDLE PERSIAN LITERATURE
FOREWORD
Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of
Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence. Such a work must
obviously contain as many novel features as possible, so that a short explanation of
what my collaborators and I had in mind when planning the book is perhaps not
superfluous. In the first place our object was to present a short summary of the material
in all its aspects, and secondly to review the subject from the chronological, geo•
graphical and substantial standpoints - all within pass of a single volume.
Such a scheme precludes a formal plete enumeration of names and phenom•
ena, and renders all the greater the obligation to accord most pr