Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures -- Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition -- Kāshifī's Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope -- Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Hāfiz and his Predecessors -- Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufi Poetry -- One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales -- Translating Persian Metaphors into English -- The Ring as a Token in the Barzū-nāma: On the Importance of Lineage and Origin -- The Function of the Catalogue of Poets in Persian Poetry -- The Origins of the Munāzara Genre in New Persian Literature -- Index.