Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 31
They were also an illiterate people who naturally accepted the Arabic alphabet, and as their men became learned they turned to the Arabic Koran for their inspiration as we of the west turned to the Bible. Had not a counter in?uence reached them, they would doubtless have modelled their literature on the Arabic, but instead they fell under the in?uence of Persian literature, of which their own for several centuries is mainly an imitation.
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