Shahnama studies II : the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama / edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951-

Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel, 1967-

Series:

Studies in Persian Cultural History 2.

Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 2

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Persian poetry--1500-1796--History and criticism.

Persian poetry.

Firdawsi. Shahnamah.

Firdawsi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

Multiple languages

Summary:

This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands. Later poets and writers not only looked to Firdausi’s work for a model, but supplemented its stories with other narratives or absorbed the characters and the moral values of the poem into their own works. Several chapters focus on the literary traditions fed by the Shahnama , including reports of the continuing oral performances of its more popular stories. Others discuss Firdausi’s impact on the creative imagination of the miniature painters who illustrated manuscript copies of the Shahnama in the courts of the Ottoman Empire, Moghul India, and the Central Asia Khanates up till the seventeenth century. Contributors include Gabrielle van den Berg, Francesca Leoni, Farhad Mehran, Bilha Moor, Adeela Qureshi, Ravshan Rahmoni, Julia Rubanovich, Karin Ruehrdanz, Jan Schmidt, Ivan Steblin-Kamenski, Zeren Tanindi, Lâle Uluç, Evangelos Venetis, Olga Yastrebova, and Marjolijn van Zutphen.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Charles Melville and Gabrielle van den Berg

Introduction / Charles Melville

Tracking the Shahnama Tradition in Medieval Persian Folk Prose / Julia Rubanovich

Demons in the Persian Epic Cycle: The Div Shabrang in the Leiden Shabrangnama and in Shahnama Manuscripts / Gabrielle van den Berg

Faramarz’s Expedition to Qannuj and Khargah: Mutual Influences of the Shahnama and the Longer Faramarznama / Marjolijn van Zutphen

The Influence of the Shahnama in the Extended Version of Arday Virafnama by Zartusht Bahram / Olga Yastrebova

Picturing Evil: Images of Divs and the Reception of the Shahnama / Francesca Leoni

The Reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama Among the Ottomans / Jan Schmidt

The Illustration of the Shahnama and the Art of the Book in Ottoman Turkey / Zeren Tanındı

The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Lands of Rum / Lâle Uluç

Bahram’s Feat of Hunting Dexterity as Illustrated in Firdausi’s Shahnama, Nizami’s Haft Paikar and Amir Khusrau’s Hasht Bihisht / Adeela Qureshi

The Samarqand Shahnamas in the Context of Dynastic Change / Karin Ruehrdanz

Mapping Illustrated Folios of Shahnama Manuscripts: The Concept and Its Uses / Farhad Mehran

Shahnama Kings and Heroes in ‘Aja’ib al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts / Bilha Moor

Sistani Legends about Rustam and his Descendants / Ivan Steblin-Kamensky

The Oral Variant of the Story of Barzu Amongst the Tajiks of Boysun / Ravshan Rahmoni

The Shahnama Oral Tradition in Contemporary Iran: The Cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan / Evangelos Venetis

General Index / Charles Melville and Gabrielle van den Berg.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55092-X

9786613863379

90-04-22863-2

OCLC:

808441521

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004228634 DOI