Addressing Walt Whitman’s reception in Iran, the present essay focuses on the front cover of a book-length translation of Whitman into Persian to study how Whitman’s image is visually translated for an Iranian audience. Among literary discourses of contemporary Iran, the one that associates poetry with mysticism plays the most significant role in…[Read more]

Review of Michael M.J. Fischer’s Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry

Review Essay of Patricia Crone’s The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism

This article examines the ways in which Iranian mytho-history was woven into the narratives of Islamic history. It argues that the inclusion of narratives such as the ones that equate several of the earliest Iranian mytho-historical kings to the earliest Koranic prophets or claim that Persian was the language of the prophets from Ādam to…[Read more]

The paper reconsiders the apocryphal stories regarding the Shahnama’s initial reception to propose that it was only after long narrative poems gained currency that the Shahnama was recognized as a masterpiece. The paper analyzes the structure and themes of several histories written before and during the Samanid period and compares them with the S…[Read more]

This paper seeks to contribute to the field of reception and audience studies by ana- lyzing ʿAttār’s Elāhināma. Little studied, the Elāhināma offers an opportunity to un- derstand better ʿAttār’s attitudes towards socio-religious issues, as well as the types of audiences that the text seeks, how it addresses them, and what possible ai…[Read more]

« Nous lisons en glagolitique ! » par Maxime Dubrovnik, vol. R1. Ce recueil est issu du séminaire de recherche en linguistique organisé au sein du Département des Sciences du language de l’Institut fédératif des études avancées (FIAS) et il fournit aux slavistes, tout comme au public le plus vaste, un moyen pratique et moderne d’apprendre à lire c…[Read more]

« Nous lisons en glagolitique ! » par Maxime Dubrovnik, vol. R1
Ce recueil est issu du séminaire de recherche en linguistique organisé au sein du Département des Sciences du language de l’Institut fédératif des études avancées (FIAS) et il fournit aux slavistes, tout comme au public le plus vaste, un moyen pratique et moderne d’apprendre à lire c…[Read more]