The Necklace of the Pleiades : 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion.
The Necklace of the Pleiades is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, history and religions, bu...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Leiden University Press,
2010
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| Series: | Iranian Studies Series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The Necklace of the Pleiades; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF HESHMAT MOAYYAD; I. Alexander Romance; On Some Sources of Nizami's Iskandarnama; Sources and Art of Amir Khosrou's "The Alexandrine Mirror"; II. The Epic Cycle; Rostam and Zoroastrianism; Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh; Shirin and Other Female Archetypes in Firdausi's Shahnamah; Editing the Shahnama: The Interface between Literary and Textual Criticism; III. Religious Texts and Contexts; The Creative Compiler: The Art of Rewriting in 'Attar's Takirat al-awlya'
- Shahriyar b. al-Hasan: A Persian Isma'ili da i' of the Fatimid age"In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned 'Ulama": A Mysterious Poem by Qajar Court Poet Mirza Habib Allah Shirazi "Qa'ani"; IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs; A Life in Poetry: Hafiz's First Ghazal; My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry; V. Center and Periphery; Sincerely Flattering Panegyrics: The Shrinking Ghaznavid Qasida ; Novelty, Tradition and Mughal Politics in Nau'i's Suz u Gudaz.
- Situating the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic ContinuumIV. The Modern Period; The Political Realm's Literary Convention: The Examples of 'Ishqi and Iqbal; Re-membering Amrads and Amradnumas: Re-inventing the (Sedgwickian) Wheel; The Title of Hedayat's Buf-e Kur [(The) Blind Owl)]; Sâdeq Hedâyat, a Writer ahead of Time; A Fenceless Garden; Refuting Rushdie in Persian; From Dawn's Art; Backlist Iranian Studies Series.
