| Division I.—Early Tablets and Mythology. |
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| CHAPTER I. |
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| HISTORIC OUTLINE. |
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| ORIGIN OF PERSIAN LITERATURE—ACCAD AND SUMER—LITERATURE OF NINEVEH—BABYLON—?R?N OR PERSIA—PHYSICAL FEATURES—PERSIAN ART—MANUSCRIPTS—EARLY LITERATURE—THE ARABIAN CONQUEST—LITERATURE OF MODERN PERSIA—PERSIAN ROMANCE | 1 |
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| CHAPTER II. |
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| THE CUNEIFORM INSCRIPTIONS. |
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| EARLY LITERATURE—HISTORIC TABLETS—THE INSCRIPTIONS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR—THE FALL OF BABYLON—CYRUS, THE ACHÆMENIAN—BEHISTUN INSCRIPTIONS—DARIUS AT PERSEPOLIS—INSCRIPTIONS OF XERXES—ARTAXERXES—A LATER PERSIAN TABLET—RÉSUMÉ | 30 |
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| CHAPTER III. |
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| THE POETRY AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE TABLETS. |
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| PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY—AN?—SEVEN EVIL SPIRITS—ACCADIAN POEM—ASSUR—HEA—NIN-CI-GAL—SIN, THE MOON GOD—HEA-BANI—NERGAL—MERODACH—NEBO—NINIP—CHEMOSH—INCANTATIONS TO FIRE AND WATER—IM—BAAL—TAMMUZ—ISHTAR—ISHTAR OF ARBELA—ISHTAR OF ERECH—LEGEND OF ISHTAR AND IZD?BAR—ISHTAR, QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTY—THE DESCENT OF ISHTAR | 53 |
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| CHAPTER IV. |
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| PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY. |
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| THE COMMON SOURCE OF MYTHOLOGY—MYTHICAL MOUNTAINS—RIVERS—MYTHICAL BIRDS—AH?RA MAZDA—ATAR—THE STORM GOD—YIMA—THE CHINVAT BRIDGE—MITHRA—RÉSUMÉ | 86 |
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| Division II.—Period of the Zend-Avesta. |
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| CHAPTER V. |
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| THE ZEND-AVESTA. |
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| DERIVATION AND LANGUAGE—DIVISIONS—AGE OF THE ZEND-AVESTA—MANUSCRIPTS—ZARATHU?TRA—THE EARLY P?RS?S—THE MODERN P?RS?S | 109 |
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| CHAPTER VI. |
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| THE TEACHINGS OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. |
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| THE G?THAS—THE WAIL OF THE KINE—THE LAST G?THA—THE MARRIAGE SONG—THE YASNA—COMMENTARY ON THE FORMULAS—THE YASNA HAPTANG-H?ITI—THE SRA?SHA YA?T—THE YASNA CONCLUDING | 127 |
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| CHAPTER VII. |
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| TEACHINGS OF THE ZEND-AVESTA, CONCLUDED. |
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| THE VEND?DAD—FARGARD II—THE VARA OF YIMA—THE LAWS OF PURIFICATION—DISPOSITION OF THE DEAD—PUNISHMENTS—THE PLACE OF REWARD—THE VISPARAD—TEACHING OF THE MODERN P?RS?S | 146 |
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| Division III.—The Time of the Mohammedan |
| Conquest and the Kor?n. |
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| CHAPTER VIII. |
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| THE KOR?N. |
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| THE SUCCESSOR OF THE ZEND-AVESTA—AUTHOR OF THE KOR?N—FIRST REVELATIONS—THE HIGRAH—CONTINUED WARFARE—DEATH OF MOHAMMED—RECENSION OF THE TEXT—TEACHING OF THE KOR?N—HEAVEN—HELL—PREDESTINATION—POLYGAMY—LITERARY STYLE OF THE KOR?N | 165 |
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| Division IV.—The Period Succeeding the |
| Mohammedan Conquest. |
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| CHAPTER IX. |
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| THE ANW?R-I-SUHALI. |
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| HISTORY OF THE WORK—PREFACE—THE BEES AND THEIR HABITS—THE TWO PIGEONS—THE BLIND MAN AND HIS WHIP—AMICABLE INSTRUCTION—THE PIGEONS AND THE RAT—THE ANTELOPE AND THE CROW—THE ELEPHANT AND THE JACKAL—GEMS FROM THE HITOPADE?A | 189 |
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| CHAPTER X. |
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| PERSIAN POETRY. |
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| SEVEN ERAS—THE FIRST PERIOD—THE HOMER OF ?R?N—THE SH?H N?MAH—HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN EPIC—FIRDUS?—INVECTIVE—M?TESHIM—THE SH?H’S REPENTANCE—DEATH OF FIRDUS?—THE POEM | 214 |
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| CHAPTER XI. |
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| STORY OF THE SH?H N?MAH. |
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| S?M SUW?R—THE S?M?RGH’S NEST—THE FATHER’S DREAM—R?DABEH—THE MARRIAGE—RUSTEM—THE T?R?NIAN INVASION—THE WHITE DEMON | 228 |
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| CHAPTER XII. |
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