Converging zones : Persian literary tradition and the writing of history : studies in honor of Amin Banani
- Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 2012.
- xvi, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
This collection of essays is dedicated to Dr. Amin Banani, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature and History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The essays collected in this book deal, in various forms, with the intrinsic relationship between history and literature in classical and modern Persian literature and Persianate cultural history. More specifically, this volume aims at exploring the reorientation of the course of Persian and Iranian scholarship through examining the fecundity of inter- and multidisciplinary studies.
Preface
Chapter 1, A Friend’s Tribute to Amin Banani Firuz Kazemzadeh
Chapter 2. On the Coming of a Zoroastrian Messiah: A Middle Persian Poem on History and Apocalypticism in Early Medieval Islamic Iran Touraj Daryaee
Chapter 3. A Primary Armenian Source on Land Tenure in the Khanate of Iravan (Erevan) from the 16th to the 18th Centuries George Bournoutian
Chapter 4. Cycle of Neglect: Filial Relationships and Preparation for Kingship The Case of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza Latifeh E. Hagigi
Chapter 5. The Reform of Iranian Nomenclature and Titulature in the Fifth Majles H.E. Chehabi
Chapter 6. Impact of the Constitutional Revolution on the Development of a Modern State in Iran Omid Uskowi and A. Reza Sheikholeslami
Chapter 7. Suhravardi’s “The Sound of Gabriel’s Wings” and its Relation to Avicennan Cosmology Herbert A. Davidson
Chapter 8. Nur al-Fu’ad, A Persian Treatise in Illuminationist Philosophy & a Persian Handbook on Ophthalmology Hossein Ziai
Chapter 9. A Perfect Tragedy Ehsan Yarshater
Chapter 10. On Teaching Attar’s Conference of the Birds to Anglophone Readers Dick Davis
Chapter 11. “Tale of the Righteous Woman (Whose Husband had Gone on a Journey)” A Poetic Translation from the Elahi-nameh of Farid al-Din Attar Franklin D. Lewis
Chapter 12. Love, Separation, and Reunion: The Master-Narrative of the Human Condition in Persian Mystical Poetry Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Chapter 13. Iqbal and the Predicaments of Identity Formation Wali Ahmadi
Chapter 14. The Visual Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad in The House Is Black Farzaneh Milani
Chapter 15. Le projet d’une civilisation mondiale dans les Ecrits de Baha’ullah Shapour Rassekh
Contributors
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Amin Banani
Persian literature--History and criticism. Literature and history--Iran. Literary Works--Baha'i Faith