TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Franklin
AU  - Sharma,Sunil
AU  - Moayyad,Heshmat
TI  - The necklace of the Pleiades: studies in Persian literature presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th birthday : 24 essays on Persian literature, culture and religion 
T2  - Iranian studies series
AV  - PK6408 .N435 2010eb
U1  - 800 22
PY  - 2010///], ©2010
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Leiden University Press
KW  - Persian literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Persian poetry
KW  - Islamic literature
KW  - Iran
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, history and religions, but of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies, as well. The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdowsi's Shahnama and other epics, the poetics and imagery of the ghazal and the qasida, Mughal court poetry, Sufism, Ismaili history, Baha'i literature, Iranian linguistics, the modern writer Sadeq Hedayat, and the reception of Salman Rushdie's novel in Persian translation
UR  - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=384589
ER  -