World of Persian Literary Humanism

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

What 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674066715
• ISBN13: 9780674066717
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"