Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I

A scholarly study surveys how pre-Islamic Iranian texts, institutions, and clerical traditions contributed to Arabic literary and ethical writings. It argues that Persian Pahlavi works and Parsi moral catechisms underlie key adab and ethico-didactic compilations, traces translations from Pahlavi into Arabic, and analyzes specific Persian-derived texts cited by medieval Arab authors. Organized into chapters on sources, clergy, didactic books, adab literature, and translators, the volume is followed by appendices that assemble examples, documentary extracts, and bibliographic notes illustrating Iranian material preserved in Arabic chronicles and lexica.