The Routledge Classical Persian Prose Course

1.              ترجمۀ تاریخ طبری (تاریخ بلعمی) (قرن دهم)

2.              مقدمۀ شاهنامۀ ابومنصوری )قرن دهم)

3.              کیمیای سعادت (قرن یازدهم)

4.              سفرنامۀ ناصرخسرو (قرن یازدهم)

5.              تاریخ بیهقی (قرن یازدهم)

6.              قابوسنامه (قرن یازدهم)

7.              نوروزنامه (قرن دوازدهم)

8.              مقامات حمیدی (قرن دوازدهم)

9.              کلیله و دمنه (قرن دوازدهم)

10.          تاریخ بیهق (قرن دوازدهم)

11.          مرزبان­نامه (قرن سیزدهم)

12.          تذکره­الاولیاء (قرن سیزدهم)

13.          فیه ما فیه (قرن سیزدهم)

14.          گلستان (قرن سیزدهم)

15.          رسالۀ دلگشا و سایر نثریات عبید زاکانی (قرن چهاردهم)

16.          بهارستان جامی (قرن پانزدهم)

17.          اخلاق محسنی (قرن شانزدهم)

18.          عالم آرای عباسی (قرن هفدهم)

19.          جهانگشای نادری (قرن هجدهم)

20.          پریشان (قرن نوزدهم)

21.          سیاحت‌نامۀ ابراهیم‌بیگ (قرن بیستم)

Biography

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is a linguist and a literary translator. She is Instructional Professor of Persian at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020) and co-edited several other volumes on Persian linguistics, literary translation, teaching Persian literature, and Persian language pedagogy, The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022),

Behrooz Mahmoodi‑Bakhtiari is an Iranian linguist, and author. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Department of Performing Arts, University of Tehran. He has also contributed to some major edited volumes, including The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020), and The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022).

"The proposed textbook is aimed at a slightly lower proficiency level, namely those who are just making the jump from intermediate to advanced and becoming familiar with classical Persian for the first time. In this sense, the proposed book fills an important gap and would create the possibility for a new kind of class: the third-year Persian language class. Currently, after two years of Persian, we in North America generally throw our students into reading courses on specific texts with very little structure. This book makes it possible to have a more graduated approach, and to structure and scaffold the introduction to classical Persian texts."

-Prof. Austin O'Malley, University of Chicago

 

"This is a valuable contribution to the field of Persian and Iranian Studies, especially for students who seek to master their command of classical Persian as firm foundation for mastering the modern Persian. It consists of 21 chapters, each offering carefully selected extracts from some of the most important prose works written between the 10th and the 20th centuries. The selection is excellently done, introducing a wide range of genres and disciplines in classical Persian prose, from hagiographical texts to historical, ethical, literary and satirical."

-Prof. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Utrecht University