Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 History of Persian Lexicography Studies; 2 Beginnings of Persian Lexicography (Ninth-Tenth Centuries); 3 Classics of Early Persian Lexicography: Iran and Adjacent Countries; 4 The Rise of Persian Lexicography in India; 5 Early Bilingual (Arabic-Persian) Dictionaries; 6 Vocabulary of the Early Dictionaries; 7 Structure and Presentation of Farhangs; 8 Persian Farhangs as Sources for the History of Culture; Appendix: Chronological List of Persian Farhangs (to the end of the eighteenth century); Bibliography
Summary
This is the only study in a Western European language of an important part of the intellectual and cultural history of the Persianate world in its formative phase. Persian dictionaries (farhangs) of the Islamic era, compiled principally in India, represent a unique linguistic undertaking that has no counterpart in pre-modern Europe
