001479160 000__ 05171nam\a22009975i\4500 001479160 001__ 1479160 001479160 003__ DE-B1597 001479160 005__ 20231102071744.0 001479160 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479160 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479160 008__ 190708s2012\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479160 020__ $$a9780674067592 001479160 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674067592$$2doi 001479160 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178046 001479160 035__ $$a(OCoLC)835789699 001479160 035__ $$a(OCoLC)840443578 001479160 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479160 0410_ $$aeng 001479160 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479160 072_7 $$aLIT004220$$2bisacsh 001479160 1001_ $$aDabashi, Hamid,$$eauthor. 001479160 24514 $$aThe World of Persian Literary Humanism /$$cHamid Dabashi. 001479160 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2012] 001479160 264_4 $$c©2012 001479160 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479160 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479160 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479160 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479160 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479160 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$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 001479160 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479160 520__ $$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." 001479160 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479160 546__ $$aIn English. 001479160 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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