Persian literature, Iran, Persianate societies
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Three Poems by Bijan Elahi, Two Lines (2019) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThree Poems by Bijan Elahi in the 25th-anniversary edition of Two Lines:
“My Scent that Doesn’t Pass” [بوی من که نمیآید]
“Dupin Detects” [Dupin Detects]
“Song of the Moon Hanging over the Fields of Damascus”
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics, as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan,” The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, ed. Nile Green (University of California Press, 2019) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis chapter explores the legacy of the Iranian reformer and intellectual Abd al-Rahim Talibuf (1834-1911), as viewed from Daghestan, where he passed the last decades of his life. Talibuf’s eight books shaped the trajectory of subsequent Iranian intellectual history, and inspired the revolutionary constitutional movement. Talibuf’s example e…[Read more]
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Sunil Sharma deposited The Production of Mughal Shahnamas in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis paper studies the interest of the early Mughals in the Shahnameh and survey the range of illustrated manuscripts of this text produced in North India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although there were several older copies of the Shahnameh in the imperial library, and the emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) is said to have enjoyed…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani’s Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage,” Remapping Travel Narratives in the Early Modern World (Amsterdam UP, 2018) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoWhile the trope of the Islamic pilgrimage (ḥajj) is well known, the impact of the imagery and concept of travel on poetic production from the Islamic world, particularly in Persian, has not merited the same scrutiny. This chapter introduces one of the most important and yet least-studied Persian travel narratives to an interdisciplinary r…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqānī’s Christian Qaṣīda and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān,” Journal of Persianate Studies (2016) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic legal regulations pertaining to non-Muslim communities (ahl al-zemma), I offer a new perspective on…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Critique of Religion as Political Critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda’s Pre-Islamic Xenology,” Intellectual History Review (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMīrzā Fatḥ ‘Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European Enlightenment political thought to modern Iranian society. This essay frames Ākhūndzāda’s text within a broader intellectual tradition. I read Ākhūndzāda as a radical reformer whose inte…[Read more]
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Sunil Sharma deposited ‘The Spring of Hindustan’: Love and War in the Monsoon in Indo-Persian Poetry in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA study of the imagery of the monsoon season in the poetry of the classical poets Masud Sad Salman and Amir Khusrau.
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Sunil Sharma deposited The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and His Travels in Persianate Lands in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA close reading of parts of Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s travel account in English to Central Asia and Iran as a Persianate text.
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Sunil Sharma created the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years ago
