I. Introduction, II. From the Beginnings to Firdaus!, III. The Ghaznavids and Early Saljuqs, IV. The Middle Saljuqs, V. Five Saljuq Poets, VI. Some Historians of the Thirteenth Century, VII. Medieval Persian Fiction, VIII.

Sadi of Shiraz, IX. Rumi, X. Minor Thirteenth-Century Authors, XI. The Mongol Aftermath, XII. Some Fourteenth-Century Poets, XIII. Hafiz, XIV. Timurid Historians, XV. Fifteenth-Century Poets, XVI.

Jami, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX.