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Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670034851
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.
Author : Sheila Canby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300194548
"The publication of this book commemorates the one thousandth anniversary of the completion of the Shahnama, the Persian national epic, which was written down in more than 50,000 couplets by the poet Firdausi. It also celebrates the most lavishly illustrated version of this text, a manuscript produced for the Safavid Shah Tahmasp, who ruled Iran from 1524 to 1576"--Director's Foreword, p. 7.
Author : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351548922
Shahnama: The Visual Language of the Persian Book of Kings presents the first comprehensive examination of the interplay between text and image in the celebrated Persian national epic, the Shahnama, written by the poet Firdausi of Tus. The Shahnama is one of the longest poems ever composed and recounts the history of Iran from the dawn of time to the Muslim Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. There is no Persian text, in prose or poetry, which has been so frequently and lavishly illustrated. Offering fresh insights through a range of varied art-historical approaches to the Shahnama, the essays in this volume reveal how the subtle alterations in text and image serve to document changes in taste and style and can be understood as reflections of the changing role of the national epic in the imagination of Iranians and the equally changing messages - often political in nature - which the familiar stories were made to convey over the centuries.
Author : Gabrielle R. van den Berg,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004356252
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 : Nasrin Askari
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307919
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 : Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004211278
This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.
Author : Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492554
The first volume in the series Studies in Persian Cultural History is the edited volume based on the papers from the Second Shahnama round-table, held in 2003 in Cambridge and published by Charles Melville in 2006 (The Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge). This volume brings together a collection of papers exploring many different aspects of the Shahnama, both as literature and as the object of royal patronage. It focuses particularly on the manuscripts in which the poem has been preserved from the thirteenth century onwards, and the relationships between Firdausi's text and the rich variety of the miniature paintings created to illustrate it.
Author : Firdausi
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783986778163
The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia Firdausi - The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (The Shahnameh) is an epic poem by the Persian poet Firdausi, written between 966 and 1010 AD. Telling the past of the Persian empire, using a mix of the mythical and historical, it is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Not only important to the Persian culture, it is also important to modern day followers of the Zoroastrianism religion. It is said that the poem was Firdausi's efforts to preserve the memory of Persia's golden days, following the fall of the Sassanid empire. The poem contains, among others, mentions of the romance of Zal and Rudba, Alexander the Great, the wars with Afrsyb, and the romance of Bijan and Manijeh.
Author : Marianna Shreve Simpson,Louise Marlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Epic poetry, Persian
ISBN : 0300215746
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum, October 3, 2015-January 24, 2016.
Author : Salman Khurshid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9353335280
'The book seeks to explain Islam to non-Muslims, place the identity of the Indian Muslim in the context of Indian democracy, and decipher the Muslim mind in social and political contexts, beyond theology. '- PTI 'The notion that Muslims' problems are internal and self-made is the cornerstone of a new intellectual orthodoxy. This book presents rich material to fight that idea.'-The Asian Age
Author : Marie Lukens Swietochowski,Stefano Carboni
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
ISBN : 9780870996931
Two 14th-century manuscripts are the focus of this catalog, published in conjunction with a Museum exhibit, February-May 1994. Essays and illustrations (93 total, 39 in color) present the Mu'nis al-ahrar an anthology of poetic devices, and the Shahnama, a copy of the Persian national epic in which events are depicted in 41 extant miniatures. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ferdowsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780415608527
âe~Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest...In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapters in Genesis, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost or the Canterbury Tales.âe(tm) Islamic Review The Shah-nama is the national epic poem of Persia. Written in the tenth century it contains the countryâe(tm)s myths, legends and historic reminiscences. This edition makes available a valuable prose translation selecting the most representative parts of the original including the stories of Rustum, the giant hero and his son Sohrab.
Author : Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art, Iranian
ISBN : 9780870990281
Author : Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228634
This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands.
Author : Olga M. Davidson,Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Persian literature
ISBN : 0674726804
Ferdowsi's Shahnama: Millennial Perspectives celebrates the ongoing reception, over the last thousand years, of a masterpiece of classical Persian poetry. The epic of the Shahnama or Book of Kings glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian civilization from its mythologized beginnings all the way to the historical time of the Arab Conquest, when the notionally unbroken sequence of Iranian shahs came to an end. The poet Hakim Abu'l-Qasim, who composed this epic, was renamed Ferdowsi or "the man of Paradise" in recognition of his immortalizing artistic accomplishment. Even now, over a thousand years after his death in 1010 CE, the impact of Ferdowsi's epic poetry reverberates in the intellectual and artistic life of Persianate cultures all over the world. Ferdowsi's Shahnama: Millennial Perspectives undertakes a new look at the reception of Ferdowsi's poetry, especially in the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries CE. Such a reception, the contributors to this book argue, actively engages the visual as well as the verbal arts of Iranian civilization. The paintings and other art objects illustrating the Shahnama over the ages are as vitally relevant as the words of Ferdowsi's poetry.