This anthology brings to English-language readers the riches of the Judaeo-Persian literary tradition produced by the Jewish community of Iran between the eighth and nineteenth centuries. Most of the translations were prepared specifically for this anthology from unpublished manuscripts. Extensive notes accompany each selection to clarify its meaning in Jewish and Islamic history and legend.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on the Text and the Transliterations
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Earliest Judeo-Persian Texts
- 2. Biblical Epics
- 3. An Apocryphal Epic:'Imrānī's Ḥanukkah-nāmah (The Book of Ḥanukkah)
- 4. Didactic Poetry: Yehudah b. David's Makhzan al-pand (The Treasury of Advice)
- 5. Mishnah and Midrash
- 6. Biblical Commentaries
- 7. Religious Festivals in Sermon, Commentary, and Poetry
- 8. Historical Texts
- 9. Polemics and Philosophy
- 10. Mysticism
- 11. Religious Poems
- 12. Panegyrics, Lyrical Poems, Quatrains
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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