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Expeditions In Persia - Exploring Qajar Persia In Two 19th-Century Diaries

by Siavash Rafiee Rad

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 Blending Eastern and Western viewpoints, the two travelogues that make up this book create a captivating exploration of Qajar Persiaâ€™s history, culture, and landscapes.
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Sufi Non-Conformism - Antinomian Trends In The Persianate Cultural Traditions

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 Sufi Non-Conformism covers a variety of subjects surrounding the antinomian movements in the Persianate cultural areas: from gender and the role of women in Islamic mysticism to genuine versus sham piety.
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Ayatollah Khomeiniâ€™S Mystical Poetry And Its Reception In Iran And The Diaspora

by Diede Farhosh-Van Loon

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 This book is the first study examining Khomeiniâ€™s poetry, mysticism and the reception of his poetry both in Iran and the West.
Parvin Etesami In The Literary And Religious Context Of Twentieth-Century Iran - A Female Poet’S Challenge To Patriarchy

by Zhinia Noorian

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 The poet Parvin Eâ€™tesami (1907-1941) transgressed Iranian-Muslim gender norms and acquired a special place in Persian culture. This first in-depth study of her poetry investigates Eâ€™tesamiâ€™s presence from school textbooks to the current political scene under the Islamic Republic.
Ayatollah Khomeini'S Mystical Poetry And Its Reception In Iran And The Diaspora

by Diede Farhosh-Van Loon

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 This book is the first study examining Khomeiniâ€™s poetry, mysticism and the reception of his poetry both in Iran and the West.
Losing Our Minds, Coming To Our Senses - Sensory Readings Of Persian Literature And Culture

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 By bringing sensory studies to the study of Persian literature and culture, Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture inaugurates a new chapter for Iranian and Persian studies. This volume offers a diverse set of readings across periods, genres and forms throughout Persian literary history, demonstrating the value of sensory studies as an approach to Persian cultural production, literary or otherwise. The book’s chapters conceptualize sensory aesthetics in the context of Persian literature and suggest ways in which sensory studies can be used to reimagine and enrich existing approaches to Persian literature. The volume sheds light on the scope of Persianate sensoria over the long, rich history of Persian letters. In doing so, it also offers a new model for a comparative approach to the study of Persian literary works through the larger field of sensory studies.
Pearls Of Meaning - Studies On Persian Art, Poetry, ..F.Sm And History Of Iranian Studies In Europe.J.T.P. De Bruijn

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 <cite>Pearls of Meanings</cite> offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume, thereby representing the studies of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J.F. von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856) and E.G. Browne (1862-1926) who devoted their attention to Persian culture.
Persian Whitman - Beyond A Literary Reception

by Behnam Fomeshi

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 Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been read by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has remained unexplored. Additionally, Iranian reception of Western literature is a field still in its infancy and under-researched, particularly due to contemporary political circumstances. <cite>The Persian Whitman</cite> examines Whitman’s heretofore unexplored reception in Iran. It is primarily involved with the "Persian Whitman," a new phenomenon born in diachronic and synchronic dialogue between the Persian culture and an American poet.
Principles For Progress - Essays On Religion And Modernity By `Abdu''L-Bahá

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 "This book presents three of the works of Abdu.l-Bah., son of the founder of the Bah..i Faith, dealing with social and political issues. In <cite>The Secret of Divine Civilization</cite> (1875) Abdu.l-Bah. supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirz. Hosayn Kh.n, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abdu.l-Bah. gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among these intellectuals, indeed most of his appeals are directed specifically to them. <cite>A Traveller’s Narrative</cite> (1889/90) is an authoritative statement of the broad lines of Bah.’i social and political thinking. <cite>The Art of Governance</cite> (1892/93) was written as Iran entered a pre-revolutionary phase, and ideas that we recognise today as the precursors of political Islam were spreading. It sets out the principles underlying the ideal relationship between religion and politics and between the government and the people. In addition to presenting the first parallel text translations of these works, the Persian texts incorporate notes on variants in the early published sources. An introduction outlines the intellectual and political landscape from which Abdu.l-Bah. wrote, and in which his expected readers lived. "
Irrationalities In Islam And Media In Nineteenth-Century Iran - Faces Of Modernity

by Arash Ghajarjazi

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 This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran, a history that deals with how modern techniques of representation and communication were received in the Iranian Shi.a society. This reception history is examined in religious photography, military reforms, Persian passion plays, Shi.a medicine, and the burgeoning telegraphic culture. The problematic relationship between Sh..a Islam and 19th-century media is conceptualised and contextualised, especially through the lens of the first Polytechnique college (D.r al-Fonun, 1851) in Iran. This college is conceptualised as a media laboratory, where the technological sphere in Iran was fundamentally transforming. It is also contextualised in the age of reform, a period in which the Middle East was undergoing widespread social, political, and military changes. Islamic (art) history, Iranian Studies, and cultural analysis form an interdisciplinary analytic framework to create new knowledge about the historical complexity of 19th-century Iran.
Processing Compound Verbs In Persian - A Psycholinguistic Approach To Complex Predicates

by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

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 <cite>Processing Compound Verbs in Persian</cite> is the first monograph investigating how Persian compound verbs are processed in the mental lexicon, through which it can be inferred how they are stored, organized, and accessed. The study examines Persian compound verbs in light of psycholinguistic theories on poly-morphemic word processing as well as linguistic theories of complex predicates.
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Irrationalities In Islam And Media In Nineteenth-Century Iran - Faces Of Modernity

by Arash Ghajarjazi

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 This book deals for the first time with the cultural history of media in nineteenth-century Iran
Necklace Of The Pleiades - 24 Essays On Persian Literature, Culture And Religion

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 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, but of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies, as well. The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdowsi’s Shahnama and other epics, the poetics and imagery of the ghazal and the qasida, Mughal court poetry, Sufism, Ismaili history, Baha’i literature, Iranian linguistics, the modern writer Sadeq Hedayat, and the reception of Salman Rushdie’s novel in Persian translation. In Persian literature the Necklace of the Pleiades is a metaphor for the six or seven stars (Parvin, or Sorayyâ, high up in the constellation Taurus) which the heavens bestow, like precious pearls, upon a poet in gratitude and reward for composing a beautiful poem. The poem itself is compared to a string of pearls, with its carefully chosen words bored like unique pearls and strung in perfect metrical proportion. As Hafiz puts it: You’ve sung a ghazal, pierced the pearls, come and sing it sweetly, Hafiz! The heavens strew the very Necklace of the Pleiades upon your verse.
Agreement Restrictions In Persian

by Anousha Sedighi

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 Agreement Restrictions in Persian is the first comprehensive attempt to tackle the issue of verbal agreement in Persian from a cross-linguistic point of view. Persian is a field of research within theoretical linguistics that is yet to be sufficiently explored. This book adopts the Minimalist Program of Chomsky (1995-2004) which is at the forefront of recent theories of formal syntax and applies it to the Persian language. Although it is commonly believed that in Persian the verb agrees with the subject, several constructions seem to constrain this obligatory rule. Adopting the framework of Distributed Morphology, the author argues that agreement is in fact obtained with the plural inanimate subjects but a morphological rule may block the result. Unlike the previous analyses which consider the experiencer as the subject of the psychological constructions, the author argues that the psychological state is the subject of the sentence. The findings of this book not only contribute to better understanding of Persian syntax, but also have important implications for grammar theory.
Courtly Riddles - Enigmatic Embellishments In Early Persian Poetry

by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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 This is the first study of Persian literary riddles to appear in English, analyzing a wide range of complex riddling poems systematically from the tenth to the twelfth century. In addition to the genre of riddles, the book examines the relationship between metaphors and riddles and the genre of literary description. Literary riddles occur in the early specimens of Persian literature from the tenth century and they continue to be used in modern Iranian society. What is it that it has neither trousers nor shirt? [Yet] you can place on her lap whatever you wish Although she has no tongue, she speaks the truth, With a dragon, a scorpion upon her neck. a scale (quppân) ‘Courtly Riddles demonstrates how the taste for riddles lies at the core of the development of Persian poetry. It proposes a careful, learned and systematic analysis of this hitherto little-studied and puzzling poetical game.’ Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge
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The Reception Of Hafiz - The Sweet Poetic Language Of Hafiz In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Persia

by Bahman Solati

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 In this book Solati demonstrates the influence of Hafez on the thoughts, poetic language, and philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth century Persian poets, writers and critics.
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The Holy Drama - Persian Passion Play In Modern Iran

by Mahnia A. Nematollahi Mahani

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 Persian passion play or ta'ziya depicts the role of the Prophet's granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book depicts how Zeynab has become a role model in modern Iranian society, especially during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
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The Story Of Barzu - As Told By Two Storytellers From Boysun, Uzbekistan

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 In the area of Boysun, present-day Uzbekistan, there is a living and vivid oral tradition based on stories from the epic Shah-nama. Barzu, son of Suhrab, is tragically killed at the hands of his famous father, the legendary hero Rustam.
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Father Of Persian Verse - Rudaki And His Poetry

by Sassan Tabatabai

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 Abu 'Abdollah' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorasan (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara. He is widely regarded as "the father of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in New Persian language, following the Arab conquest in the seventh a
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Classical Kurdish Poetry As World Literature - Ehmede Xani'S Mem U Zin And Persian Literary Domination

by Michiel Leezenberg

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Gender And Sexuality In Persian Literary And Religious Traditions - Embodied Encounters

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Intersex And The (Non)Binary Body In Classical Muslim Legal, Medical, And Literary Discourses

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Losing Our Minds, Coming To Our Senses - Sensory Readings Of Persian Literature And Culture

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Pearls Of Meaning - Studies On Persian Art, Poetry, ..F.Sm And History Of Iranian Studies In Europe.J.T.P. De Bruijn

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