Farāmarz The Sistāni Hero

Author : Marjolijn van Zutphen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004268289

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Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero by Marjolijn van Zutphen Pdf

In Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero Marjolijn van Zutphen discusses the manuscripts, storylines and main themes of the shorter and the longer Farāmarznāme (c. 1100), in relation to Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāme and several other later maṡnawis about the warriors from Sistān (the Persian Epic Cycle). Farāmarz, a secondary figure of the Shāhnāme, gained importance in later epic traditions and as the invincible protagonist of both Farāmarznāmes reached a status that equalled, if not surpassed, that of his famous father Rostam. Van Zutphen further shows how Farāmarz displays parallels to the fictional figures of Garshāsp (his ancestor) and Eskandar and argues that some story elements of Farāmarz’s Indian conquest may be rooted in historical events from both the Parthian and the Ghaznawid period.

Author : Gabrielle R. van den Berg,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004356252

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Shahnama Studies III by Gabrielle R. van den Berg,Charles Melville Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004291973

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Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World by Anonim Pdf

The Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World provides important evidence of textual culture's intimate, extensive, and ongoing interaction with the realm of orality, mapping out new areas and foci of research in Iranian Studies.

Author : Iranshah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520385313

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The Kushnameh by Iranshah Pdf

The first English translation of a strange and unusual Persian epic, this action-packed tale of an evil, monstrous king explores questions of nature and nurture and brings the global middle ages to life. The great Persian epic known as the Kushnameh follows the entangled lives of Kush the Tusked––a monstrous antihero with tusks and ears like an elephant, descended from the evil emperor Zahhak––and Abtin, the exiled grandson of the last true Persian emperor. Abandoned at birth in the forests of China and raised by Abtin, Kush grows into a powerful and devious warrior. Kush and his foes scheme and wage war across a global stage reaching from Spain and Africa to China and Korea. Between epic battles and magnificent feasts are disturbing, sometimes realistic portrayals of abuse and oppression and philosophical speculation about nature and nurture and the origins of civilization. A fantastical adventure story stretching across the known world and a literary classic of unparalleled richness, this important work of medieval Persian literature is a valuable source for understanding the history of racism and constructions of race and the flows of lore and legend from the Central Asian Silk Road and the Sahara to the sea routes of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. The Kushnameh is a treasure trove of Islamic and pre-Islamic Persian cultural history and a striking contemporary document of the “global middle ages,” now available to English-speaking readers for the first time.

Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107167698

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A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture by Richard Stoneman Pdf

Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.

Author : Haila Manteghi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786733665

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Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition by Haila Manteghi Pdf

Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.Haila Manteghi here offers a complete survey of that deep tradition, ranging from analysis of classical Persian poetry to popular romances and medieval Arabic historiography. She explores how the Greek work first entered the Persian literary tradition and traces the development of its influence, before revealing the remarkable way in which Alexander became as central to the Persian tradition as any other hero or king. And, importantly, by focusing on the often-overlooked early medieval Persian period, she also demonstrates that a positive view of Alexander developed in Arabic and Persian literature before the Islamic era. Drawing on an impressive range of sources in various languages - including Persian, Arabic and Greek - Manteghi provides a profound new contribution to the study of the Alexander romances.Beautifully written and with vibrant literary motifs, this book is important reading for all those with an interest in Alexander, classical and medieval Persian history, the early Islamic world and classical reception studies.

Author : Saghi Gazerani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004282964

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The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran’s National History by Saghi Gazerani Pdf

This work argues that the Sistani Cycle of Epics constitutes a genre of historiography, retaining reflections of events of Iran’s antiquity, notably the affairs of the Sistani kingdom and its relationship to the Parthian throne circa 1st century BCE- 2nd century CE.

Author : Nasrin Askari
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307919

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The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes by Nasrin Askari Pdf

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

Author : Bilal Orfali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004317352

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The Anthologist’s Art by Bilal Orfali Pdf

This book is a direct window onto the workshop of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (350–429/961–1039), an anthologist from the second half of the fourth/tenth century, and focuses on the making of his magnum opus, Yatīmat al-dahr, and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatīma.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004341579

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Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres by Anonim Pdf

Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres, is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of the South Asian subcontinent since the sixteenth century.

Author : Marjolijn van Zutphen
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Epic poetry, Persian
ISBN : 9087282729

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A Story of Conquest and Adventure by Marjolijn van Zutphen Pdf

A Story of Conquest and Adventure: The Large Faramarzname presents a poem from the Persian epic cycle dated to the late eleventh century in an English prose translation for the first time. The story tells how Faramarz, a son of the famous Shahname hero Rostam, conquers several provinces of India, before setting off on an extensive voyage over sea and land, leading his troops through a number of hazardous situations in various fictional countries. Finding love and battling men, demons, and various ferocious animals, the epic hero comes to life in this riveting translation.

Author : Sara Kuehn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004209725

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The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art by Sara Kuehn Pdf

This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures.

Author : Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi,Patricia J. Higgins,Michelle Quay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000583427

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The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi,Patricia J. Higgins,Michelle Quay Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice. The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.

Author : Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Iran
ISBN : 0710090900

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Encyclopedia Iranica by Ehsan Yarshater Pdf

Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Epic literature, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433085766339

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The Sháh Námeh of the Persian Poet Firdausí by Firdawsī Pdf