Shahnama Studies I

Author : Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004492554

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Shahnama Studies I by Charles Melville Pdf

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 : Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228634

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Shahnama Studies II by Charles Melville,Gabrielle van den Berg Pdf

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

Author : Gabrielle R. van den Berg,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Charles Peter Melville,Gabrielle Rachel Van den Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015200183

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Shahnama Studies by Charles Peter Melville,Gabrielle Rachel Van den Berg Pdf

Author : Charles Peter Melville,Gabrielle Rachel Van den Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6613863378

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Shahnama Studies II by Charles Peter Melville,Gabrielle Rachel Van den Berg Pdf

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

Author : Sheila Canby
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300194548

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The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp by Sheila Canby Pdf

"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 Peter Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:166431086

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Shahnama Studies: The reception of Firdausi's Shahnama by Charles Peter Melville Pdf

Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670034851

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Shahnameh by Firdawsī Pdf

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 : 45,9 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 : Olga M. Davidson,Marianna Shreve Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Persian literature
ISBN : 0674726804

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Ferdowsi's Shāhnāma by Olga M. Davidson,Marianna Shreve Simpson Pdf

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 : Lynette Mitchell,Charles Melville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228979

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Every Inch a King by Lynette Mitchell,Charles Melville Pdf

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 : Charles Peter Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:166431086

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Shahnama Studies: The reception of the Shahnama by Charles Peter Melville Pdf

Author : Robert Hillenbrand,A. C. S. Peacock,Firuza Abdullaeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786734655

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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran by Robert Hillenbrand,A. C. S. Peacock,Firuza Abdullaeva Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew P. Canepa
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606068427

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Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World by Matthew P. Canepa Pdf

A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two millennia, exerting influence at key historical junctures. This book provides the first critical exploration of the role Persian cultures played in articulating the myriad ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the sixth century BCE and the nineteenth century CE. Exploring topics such as royal cosmologies, fashion, banqueting, manuscript cultures, sacred landscapes, and inscriptions, the volume’s essays analyze the intellectual and political exchanges of art, architecture, ritual, and luxury material within and beyond the Persian world. They show how Perso-Iranian cultures offered neighbors and competitors raw material with which to formulate their own imperial aspirations. Unique among studies of Persia and Iran, this volume explores issues of change, renovation, and interconnectivity in these cultures over the longue durée.

Author : Pamela Lothspeich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000912166

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The Epic World by Pamela Lothspeich Pdf

Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.