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After the fall of the Sassanian Empire and with it the gradual
decline of Middle Persian as a literary language, New Persian
literature emerged in Transoxiana, beyond the frontiers of
present-day Iran, and was written and read in India even before it
became firmly established in cities such as Isfahan on the Iranian
plateau. Over the course of a millennium (ca. 900-1900 CE), Persian
established itself as a contact vernacular and an international
literary language from Sarajevo to Madras, with Persian poetry
serving as a universal cultural cachet for literati both Muslim and
non-Muslim. The role of Persian, beyond its early habitat of Iran
and other Islamic lands, has long been recognized: European
scholars first came to Persian via Turkey and British orientalists
via India. Yet the universal popularity of poets such as Sa'di and
Hafez of Shiraz and the ultimate rise of Iran to claim the centre
of Persian writing and scholarship led to a relative neglect of the
Persianate periphery until recently. This volume contributes to the
scholarship of the Persianate fringe with the aid of the abundant
material (notably in Tajik, Uzbek and Russian) long neglected by
Western scholars and the perspectives of a new generation on this
complex and important aspect of Persian literature.
A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and
Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally
a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and
the old religious and political order during the Constitutional
Revolution in Iran (1906-11). The essays were the Daily Show of
their era. The columns were heatedly debated in the Iranian
parliament, and the newspaper was shut down on several occasions
for its criticism of the religious establishment. Translated by two
distinguished scholars of Persian language and history, this volume
makes Dehkhoda's entertaining political observations available to
English readers for the first time.
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