A scholar for our times : a celebration of the life and work of Shahrokh Meskoob / edited by Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milani, Abbas, editor.

Perkins, C. Ryan, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholars--Iran.

Scholars.

Literary historians--Iran.

Literary historians.

Authors, Iranian--20th century.

Authors, Iranian.

Authors, Persian--20th century.

Authors, Persian.

Persian literature--History and criticism.

Persian literature.

Miskūb, Shāhrukh.

Physical Description:

xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Mage Publisheers, [2022].

Summary:

Shahrokh Meskoob was an Iranian writer and intellectual, who was born in Babol, on the Caspian coast, in 1924 and died in Paris in 2005. Imprisoned in the mid-1950s for leftist activities, he was forced to leave the country following the Islamic Revolution of 1979, after publishing two critical articles in the Ayandegan newspaper in Tehran. Meskoob's literary analysis of the Shahnameh and the poetry of Hafez, and his book Iranian National Identity and the Persian Language, all translated into English, demonstrate his view that national identity meant cultural identity and that modernity in Iran should be based upon an understanding of the best of Iranian culture. This book celebrates Meskoob's life and work in eight essays by prominent Iranian scholars and in a selection of facsimiles of his papers, now archived at Stanford University.

Contents:

Building an archive: Stanford Libraries and the papers of Shahrokh Meskoob / C. Ryan Perkins

Sixty-three years of friendship / Hassan Kamshad

The final question / Ahmad Meskoob

Some recollections / Gita Ostovani

Shahrokh Meskoob and the question of Iranian cultural identity / Ali Banuazizi

Meskoob's reading of Iranian mythology / Bahram Beyzaie

A contemporary voice who is still contempory / Reza Farokhfal

Translating Meskoob in pursuit of Iranian cultural identity / M.R. Ghanoonparvar

"Leaving, staying, returning": the concern for form in three narrative texts of Shahrokh Meskoob / Sorour Kasmai

Meskoob's modernity / Abbas Milani

Shahrokh Meskoob: a bibliography of major works

A selection from the Meskoob Collection at Stanford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781949445343

1949445348

OCLC:

1305913051

Publisher Number:

99991135334