Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes have been re-sequenced for uniqueness, have beencollected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease ofreference. The author notes, in her guide to pronunciation, thatthe diacritical marks “have been largely omitted” in the footnotes.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Pleasesee the transcriber’s note at the end of this textfor details regarding the handling of any textual issues encounteredduring its preparation.

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In the index, references to footnotes are hyperlinked to the specificnote, rather than the page it appears on.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate thereader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in thenote at the end of the text.

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FAC SIMILE OF A PORTION OF THE TITLE PAGE OF AN ILLUMINATED
“SHĀH NĀMAH” (SEE PREFACE)


PERSIAN LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN

BY
ELIZABETH A. REED

Member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain
Member of the International Congress of Orientalists
Author of Hindu Literature, etc.

CHICAGO
S.C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY
1893
Copyright, 1893.
By S.C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
The Lakeside Press
R.R. DONNELLEY & SONS CO., CHICAGO
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


PERSIAN LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

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Division I.—Early Tablets and Mythology.
 
CHAPTER I.
 
HISTORIC OUTLINE.