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Author : Gabrielle R. van den Berg,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Sheila Canby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Nasrin Askari
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Olga M. Davidson,Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.
Author : Charles Peter Melville,Gabrielle Rachel Van den Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015200183
Author : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Firdausi
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915837141
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult of access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period Iran dominated the art of book painting in the Islamic world. The articles reprinted here examine various aspects of this, the golden age of Persian painting. They range from the period of Mongol rule, when the impact of Far Eastern themes and modes radically transformed the heritage bequeathed to Iran by Arab painting - a textbook case of the clash of civilisations - to the dawn of the modern era and the swansong of the classical style of Persian painting under the early Safavids. Yet other articles focus on the roots of book painting in the themes and styles developed in painted ceramics, on medieval Qur'anic calligraphy, on bookbinding and on the remarkably original variations played on the hitherto hackneyed theme of the figural frontispiece by Arab painters. Two major leitmotifs are explored in this selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying interpretations of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian national epic, and especially the tendency of painters to interpret this familiar text in terms of contemporary politics. The other is the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency of painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text progressively further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots of their own. These enquiries are set within the context of a concerted effort to explore in detail how Persian painters achieved their most spectacular visual effects. In its combination of general surveys and closely focused analyses of individual manuscripts, this collection of articles will be of interest to specialists in book painting and in Islamic art as a whole.
Author : Charles Peter Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:166431086
Author : Lynette Mitchell,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228979
Drawing on studies of kings from Cyrus to Shah Abbas, this volume provides a rich variety of readings on royal authority and its limitations in medieval societies in both Europe and the Middle East, exemplified especially in the case of Alexander the Great, God and King, and the persistence of his legend in later eras.
Author : Robert Hillenbrand,A. C. S. Peacock,Firuza Abdullaeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786734655
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which illuminates important, yet largely neglected, aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Iran and the Middle East. Its scope, from the era of Ferdowsi, Iran's national epic poet and the author of the Shahnameh to the period of the Mongols, Timurids, Safavids, Zands and Qajars, examines the interaction between mythology, history, historiography, poetry, painting and craftwork in the long narrative of the Persianate experience. As such, Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran is essential reading and a reference point for students and scholars of Iranian history, Persian literature and the arts of the Islamic World.