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072		7	_aLIT004220 _2bisacsh
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aDabashi, Hamid _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe World of Persian Literary Humanism / _cHamid Dabashi.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2012]
264		4	_c©2012
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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505	0	0	_t Frontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPreface -- _tIntroduction. The Making of a Literary Humanism -- _t1. The Dawn of an Iranian World in an Islamic Universe -- _t2. The Persian Presence in the Early Islamic Empires -- _t3. The Prose and Poetry of the World -- _t4. The Triumph of the Word -- _t5. The Lure and Lyrics of a Literature -- _t6. The Contours of a Literary Cosmopolitanism -- _t7. The Dawn of New Empires -- _t8. The Final Frontiers -- _tConclusion -- _tNotes -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aWhat does it mean to be human? Humanism has mostly considered this question from a Western perspective. Through a detailed examination of a vast literary tradition, Hamid Dabashi asks that question anew, from a non-European point of view. The answers are fresh, provocative, and deeply transformative. This groundbreaking study of Persian humanism presents the unfolding of a tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. Exploring how 1,400 years of Persian literature has taken up the question of what it means to be human, Dabashi proposes that the literary subconscious of a civilization may also be the undoing of its repressive measures. This could account for the masculinist hostility of the early Arab conquest that accused Persian culture of effeminate delicacy and sexual misconduct, and later of scientific and philosophical inaccuracy. As the designated feminine subconscious of a decidedly masculinist civilization, Persian literary humanism speaks from a hidden and defiant vantage point-and this is what inclines it toward creative subversion. Arising neither despite nor because of Islam, Persian literary humanism was the artistic manifestation of a cosmopolitan urbanism that emerged in the aftermath of the seventh-century Muslim conquest. Removed from the language of scripture and scholasticism, Persian literary humanism occupies a distinct universe of moral obligations in which "a judicious lie," as the thirteenth-century poet Sheykh Mosleh al-Din Sa'di writes, "is better than a seditious truth."
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067592
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