Kamran Talattof is Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies and the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona, USA.

1. A Review of the History and Categories of Persian Literature: An Introduction; 2. Avesta and Avestan Literature (Sample); 3. A Semanatic Shift in the Official Documents of Pre-Islamic Iran: The Semantics of Power to the Semantics of Politeness (Sample); 4. Genre in Classical Persian Poetry (Sample); 5. Rudaki: The Father of Persian Poetry (Sample); 6. The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi(Sample); 7. Rob¿`¿y¿t of Omar Khayy¿m (Sample); 8. Ghazal: Form in Meaning (Sample); 9. Ni¿¿m¿ Ganjav¿: An Innovator of Persian Narrative Poetry (Sample); 10. Geographical Space and Historical Time Layers in Nizami Ganjavi's Works (Sample); 11. Erotic Narratives and ¿Att¿r's Refashioning of the Didactic Masnavi (Sample); 12. Analysis of the ratio of poetry and Islamic mysticism in the formation of Molavi's personality (Sample); 13. Poetry and Patronage: Persian Literature During the Mongol Empire (Sample); 14. Sa'di of Shiraz (Sample); 15. Gendering Obeyd: Rereading Zakani's Sexual Satire (Sample); 16. Congruity of Structure and Content in Ghazals of Hafiz and Their Cultural and Historical Context (Sample); 17. Non-Ideological or Bibliomantic Readings of Hafiz's Poetry (Sample); 18. Jami: The Seal of the Great Poets or the Emblem of an Era? (Sample); 19. A Lost Literacy: Reading Tadhkiras of Persian Poets in the 21st Century (Sample); 20. Persian-language Anthological Manuscripts: Typologies and Terminologies(Sample); 21. The Grounds of Verse: A Geopolitical Turn in Early Modern Persian Literary Criticism (Sample); 22. Persian-language literature in Dagestan: The Poetry of Hasan Alqadari (Sample); 23. Nizami Ganjavi and the Georgian Literature of 12th-18th Centuries (Sample)