Related Resources
Selected Bibliography
Persian Literature Resources
- Ahmadi, Wali. Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous Visions of History and Form. New York: Routledge, 2008.
- Browne, Edward G. A Literary History of Persia. Introduction by J.T. P de Bruijn. Bethesda, Maryland: Iranbooks, 1997.
- Dabashi, Hamid. The World of Persian Literary Humanism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Dale, Stephen F. The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Frye, Richard N. The Golden Age of Persia: The Arabs in the East. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
- ———. Islamic Iran and Central Asia (7th–12th centuries). London: Variorum Reprints, 1979.
- Hambly, Gavin R.G., editor. Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Khalid, Adeeb. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
- Kianush, Mahmud, editor. Modern Persian Poetry. Ware, Hertforshire: The Rockingham Press, 1996.
- Lewis, Franklin and Farzin Yazdanfar. In a Voice of Their Own: A Collection of Stories by Iranian Women Written Since the Revolution of 1979. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1996.
- Marzolph, Ulrich. Narrative Illustration in Persian Lithographed Books. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001.
- Moayyad, Heshmat. Stories from Iran: A Chicago Anthology, 1921–1991. Washington, D.C.: Mage Publishers.
- Moreen, Vera Basch. In Queen Esther's garden : an anthology of Judeo-Persian literature, 2000. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press.
Related Web Sites
- World Digital Library External
- Encyclopedia Iranica (online) External a comprehensive reference source on Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the subcontinent.
- Ganjūr, a database of Persian poetry External
- Steingass, Francis Joseph. A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary External. London, 1892 https://lccn.loc.gov/77273978
- The Packard Humanities Institute Persian Literature in Translation External
- University of Michigan Library Research Guides, Persian, Iranian Studies & Near Eastern Studies Library Resources External ( Persian/Iranian Studies External )
- Vāzhah External, an online multilingual dictionary which includes ʻAlī Akbar Dihkhudā's encyclopedic dictionary, Lughatnāmah
- Definitions of Greater Iran and Persianate Societies External
Library of Congress Web Resources
- Islamic Calligraphy Project
- Persian Book Lecture Series
- A Thousand Years of the Persian Book
- A Thousand Years of the Persian Book: A Curator's Tour
- Voices from Afghanistan
- African and Middle Eastern Division Blog posts: