Shahnama Studies II

Shahnama Studies II PDF Author: Charles Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.

Shahnama Studies II

Shahnama Studies II PDF Author: Charles Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Book Description
This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.

Shahnama Studies II

Shahnama Studies II PDF Author: Charles Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211276
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Book Description
This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.

Shahnama Studies III

Shahnama Studies III PDF Author: Gabrielle R. van den Berg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004356258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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Shahnama Studies III offers new insights into the reception of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, composed by the Persian poet Firdausi in the 10th-11th century in eastern Iran.

Shahnama Studies: The reception of Firdausi's Shahnama

Shahnama Studies: The reception of Firdausi's Shahnama PDF Author: Charles Peter Melville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Shahnameh

Shahnameh PDF Author: Firdawsī
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670034857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 936

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A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.

The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes

The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes PDF Author: Nasrin Askari
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004307915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409

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Through an examination of a wide range of medieval sources and a close textual study of the account about Ardashīr in the Shāhnāma, Nasrin Askari demonstrates that medieval authors understood Firdausī’s opus primarily as a mirror for princes

Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900

Remapping Persian Literary History, 1700-1900 PDF Author: Schwartz Kevin L. Schwartz
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474450873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia - at a time when Islamic empires were fracturing and new state formations were emerging - this book offers a more global understanding of Persian literary culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. It challenges the manner in which Iranian nationalism has infilitrated Persian literary history writing and recovers the multi-regional breadth and vibrancy of a global lingua franca connecting peoples and places across Islamic Eurasia. Focusing on 3 case studies (18th-century Isfahan, a small court in South India and the literary climate of the Anglo-Afghan war), it reveals the literary and cultural ties that bound this world together as well as some of the trends that broke it apart.

The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition

The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition PDF Author: Stephan Conermann
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847011529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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While the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk realm in 1516-17 doubtlessly changed the balance of political power in Egypt and Greater Syria, the changes must be seen as a wide-ranging transition process. The present collection of essays provides several case studies on the changing situation during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and explains how the reconfiguration of political power affected both Egypt and Greater Syria. With reference to the first volume (2017), this second volume continues the debate on key issues of the transition period with contributions by scholars from both Mamluk and Ottoman studies. By combining these perspectives, the authors provide a more comprehensive and nuanced picture of the process of transformation from Mamluk to Ottoman rule.

Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia

Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004540997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia (including Afghanistan). By mapping and exploring the interaction between political, ideological, literary and artistic production in Central Asia, the contributors offer a wide range of perspectives on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in different contexts and timeframes. Making use of different approaches – historical, literary, anthropological, or critical heritage studies, the contributors show how memory functions as a fundamental constituent of identity formation in both past and present, and how this has informed perceptions in and outside Central Asia today.

Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World

Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004291970
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function. Contributors are: Frantz Grenet, Jo-Ann Gross, Charles G. Häberl, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Reuven Kiperwasser, Ulrich Marzolph, Margaret A. Mills, Ravshan Rahmoni, Karl Reichl, Julia Rubanovich, Shaul Shaked, Raya Shani, Dan Y. Shapira, Maria E. Subtelny, Gabrielle R. van den Berg, Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Naama Vilozny, Mohsen Zakeri, and Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur.