Routledge Classical Persian Prose Course

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvPouneh Shabani-Jadidi,Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari

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The Routledge Classical Persian Prose Course offers students and scholars an engaging introduction to canonical texts in classical and pre-modern Persian prose literature spanning ten centuries, from the 10th to the 20th.Featuring twenty-one carefully structured lessons, this textbook presents renowned literary works alongside a variety of exercises including paraphrasing, translation, task-based activities, and manuscript reading. The varied exercises develop all four language skills: receptive skills are enhanced through reading texts and listening to audio files, while productive skills are cultivated through paraphrasing, creative writing, and role-play activities that build speaking proficiency. The textbook includes detailed contextual support with both English and Persian descriptions of the works and their authors. Footnotes throughout highlight differences between classical and modern Persian forms and syntax, facilitating comprehension and deeper linguistic understanding. Students benefit from scaffolded materials that ease the transition into classical Persian forms, while common Persian proverbs from Sa'di enrich cultural knowledge. Each lesson includes a classical Persian prose manuscript folio, providing students hands-on experience with primary sources and building paleographic competence essential for advanced Persian studies.This textbook is an essential resource for students seeking to develop proficiency in classical Persian prose literature while building practical manuscript reading skills.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-14
Mått189 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041260431

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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).

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)

"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