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Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)

Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 96

An illustration from Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map, 1906, leaf 96
ture belongs to the Sasanianperiod from the third to the sixth century after Christ; andthe Modern Persian began within the last thousand years. Itsprang up a century or two after the Arab conquest as a re-naissance movement with the revival of the old national feeling;and this period is certainly… … His Royal Highness Muzaffak ad-Din, Shah of Persia PERSIAN LITERATURE 31 romantic poetic Nizami, the dervish Jalal ad-Din Rumi, andthe mystic Jami (d. 1492), the last classic poet of Persia,should be mentioned as deserving to be known to lovers ofliterature. Little space remains for writing about…

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