Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia. It has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others and praised by William Jones, Tagore, E. M. Forster and many more. Yet although in the past few years the ...(展开全部)

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia. It has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others and praised by William Jones, Tagore, E. M. Forster and many more. Yet although in the past few years the ...(展开全部)

“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.” - The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Mac...(展开全部)

Persian served as one of the primary languages of historical writing over the period of the early modern Islamic empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals. Historians writing under these empires read and cited each other's work, some moving from one empire to another, writing under different rival dynasties at various points in time. Emphasising the importance of looking be...(展开全部)

At its height in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Mughal Empire was one of the largest empires in Eurasia, with territory extending over most of the Indian subcontinent and much of present-day Afghanistan. As part of the Persianate world that spanned from the Bosphorus to the Bay of Bengal, Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts. Their patronage attra...(展开全部)

The great national epic of Persia—the most complete English-language edition Wherever Persian influence has spread, the stories of the Shahnameh become deeply embedded in the culture, as their appearance in such novels as The Kite Runner amply attests. Among the greatest works of world literature, this prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the late tenth cen...(展开全部)

Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shanameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly-marked explanati...(展开全部)

格奥尔格·伊格尔斯（Georg G. Iggers, 1926—2017），国际知名的欧洲思想史、史学史和史学理论学者，生前曾在美国纽约州立大学布法罗校区任历史系杰出教授多年。著有《德国的历史观念：从赫尔德至今的历史思想传统》《欧洲史学新方向》《二十世纪的历史学：从科学的客观性到后现代的挑战》等，被翻译成包括中文在内的十多种文字。 王晴佳，美国新泽西州罗文大学历史系教授，北京大学长江学者，国际史学史、史学理论委员会理事。长于比较史学史、史学理论和比较文化史，主要著作包括《西方的历史观念：从古希腊到现代》《后现代与历史学：中西比较》《新史学讲演录》《外国史学史》等。 苏普里娅·穆赫吉（Supriya Mukherjee），任教于加拿大马尼托巴大学（University of Manitoba），对印度史学和德国史有深入的观察和研究。