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Dreaming Across Boundaries
The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
Av L. Marlow
Häftad, 2008
156 kr
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Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the Near East and North Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed them with a theological dimension, saying that after him “true dreams” would be the only channel for prophecy. Dreams were often used to support conflicting theological and political …
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Women in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2009
253 kr
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This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahābhārata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere …
Persian Literature and Judeo-Persian Culture
Collected Writings of Sorour S. Soroudi
Av Sorour S. Soroudi, H. E. Chehabi
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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This volume presents several articles and other writings of Sorour S. Soroudi (1938–2002), who taught in the Department of Iranian Studies at the Hebrew University for three decades. Soroudi’s research was concentrated in three main areas, all of which are well represented in this collection. …
Rhetoric of Biography
Narrating Lives in Persianate Societies
Av L. Marlow
Häftad, 2011
204 kr
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In the context of a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in …
Introduction and Translation of Years 421–423 A.H. (1030–1032 A.D.)
Häftad, 2011
271 kr
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Abu'l-Fażl Beyhaqi, a secretary at the court of a number of Ghaznavid rulers in eastern Iran and Afghanistan in the early Middle Ages, is a most perceptive, as well as intriguing, commentator on the history of the Islamic Near East. The surviving volumes of his massive project, dealing in depth …
Translation of Years 424–432 A.H. (1032–1041 A.D.) and the History of Khwarazm
Häftad, 2011
271 kr
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Abu'l-Fażl Beyhaqi, a secretary at the court of a number of Ghaznavid rulers in eastern Iran and Afghanistan in the early Middle Ages, is a most perceptive, as well as intriguing, commentator on the history of the Islamic Near East. The surviving volumes of his massive project, dealing in depth …
Commentary, Bibliography, and Index
Häftad, 2011
271 kr
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Abu'l-Fażl Beyhaqi, a secretary at the court of a number of Ghaznavid rulers in eastern Iran and Afghanistan in the early Middle Ages, is a most perceptive, as well as intriguing, commentator on the history of the Islamic Near East. The surviving volumes of his massive project, dealing in depth …
Jaya
Performance in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2011
135 kr
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Jaya is a study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahābhārata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work of art. The book examines in detail the different mnemonic forms engaged by this verbal activity focusing primarily on the distinction between what is …
Ruse and Wit
The Humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Narrative
Häftad, 2012
232 kr
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The essays in Ruse and Wit examine in detail a wide range of texts (from nonsensical prose, to ribald poetry, titillating anecdotes, edifying plays, and journalistic satire) that span the best part of a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world, from classical Arabic to …
Last of the Rephaim
Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel
Häftad, 2013
204 kr
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The figure of the giant has haunted the literatures of the ancient Mediterranean world, from the Greek Gigantomachy and other Aegean epic literatures to the biblical contexts of the ancient Near East. In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants of the Hebrew Bible are a …
Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics
Second Edition
Häftad, 2013
204 kr
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Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetics applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. Olga M. Davidson focuses on epic, especially the classical epic Shāhnāma, composed in the early eleventh century CE by the poet …
Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings
Third Edition
Häftad, 2013
253 kr
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Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings presents a far-reaching reassessment of the classical Persian epic known as the Shahnama or “Book of Kings,” composed by the poet Ferdowsi in the early eleventh century ce. Combining comparative perspectives with a close reading of the internal evidence …
Heroic Kṛṣṇa
Friendship in Epic Mahābhārata
Häftad, 2013
444 kr
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Heroic Kṛṣṇa is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna, an incarnation of Visnu. This is a picture, drawn from the epic Mahābhārata, of an archaic warrior who excelled as a charioteer; in fact this is the best depiction that we …
On the Wonders of Land and Sea
Persianate Travel Writing
Av Roberta Micallef, Sunil Sharma
Häftad, 2013
204 kr
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On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Persianate world from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume discuss travel narratives by male and female Muslim and …
Global Medieval
Mirrors for Princes Reconsidered
Av Regula Forster, Neguin Yavari
Häftad, 2015
220 kr
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Global Medieval: Mirrors for Princes Reconsidered begins with a question: Is a genuine history of political thought in the premodern period possible? The volume brings together mirrors for princes from a variety of historical contexts and lineages of political thought, each with its own …
Erin and Iran
Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians
Av H. E. Chehabi, Grace Neville
Häftad, 2015
227 kr
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In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian mythologies, common elements that have often …
Methodists and Muslims
My Life as an Orientalist
Häftad, 2020
188 kr
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Richard W. Bulliet is an innovative historian of the Islamic world. His contributions have changed the way scholars think about the history of medieval city life, animal domestication, wheeled transport, religious conversion, Islamic institutions, and relations between Islam and Christianity. His …
Onomastic Reforms
Family Names and State Building in Iran
Häftad, 2020
199 kr
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In the mid-1920s, the Iranian state legislated a wide-ranging reform of the citizenry’s naming practices. Honorary titles and honorifics were abolished, family names were made obligatory, and an office for registering names and citizens’ life events (birth, marriage, divorce, and death) was …
Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (16th Century to the Present)
Second Edition
Häftad, 2021
183 kr
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Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) …
Worlds of Knowledge in Women’s Travel Writing
Av James Uden
Häftad, 2022
204 kr
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Worlds of Knowledge in Women’s Travel Writing rediscovers the works of a wide range of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. A stowaway on a voyage circumnavigating the globe; a nineteenth-century visitor to schools in Japan; an Indian activist undertaking a pilgrimage to Iraq—these …
Naqqali Trilogy
Azhdahak, Arash, Testament of Bondar Bidakhsh
Häftad, 2023
155 kr
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Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this volume, Richard Saul Chason and …
Uses of Oppression
The Ottoman Empire through Its Greek Newspapers, 1830–1862
Häftad, 2024
227 kr
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During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes. The Uses of Oppression follows the …
Mobility and Masks
Cultural Identity in Travel Literature
Häftad, 2024
183 kr
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Travelers have always experimented with disguise while observing the disguises of others. Each of the chapters in Mobility and Masks illustrates the strategies of concealment in the experience of travel: a seventeenth-century German aristocrat discovers new freedom as she travels incognito, Jesuits …
Zurkhāneh and Its Milieu
A Study of Traditional Athletics in Iran
Häftad, 2025
227 kr
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The athletes known in Iran as pahlavāns and the domed structure, the zurkhāneh, where they congregate to practice ritualized martial arts, physical culture, and spirituality, are usually presented as the cornerstone of traditional Iranian masculine identity. However, this idealization does not do …
Making of Iranian Modernity
Studies in Honor of Houchang E. Chehabi
Av Roham Alvandi, Afshin Marashi m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of the leading scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. Since the 1980s, Chehabi’s …
Mirror of Dew
The Poetry of Ālam-tāj Zhāle Qā’em-Maqāmi
Häftad, 2014
253 kr
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Mirror of Dew introduces one of Iran's outstanding female poets, whose work has not previously been available in English. Zhāle Qā'em-Maqāmi (1883-1946) was a witness to pivotal social and political developments in Iran during its transition to modernity. Persian poetry at that time was often used …
Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāma
Millennial Perspectives
Av Olga M. Davidson, Marianna Shreve Simpson
Häftad, 2013
184 kr
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Ferdowsi's Shahnama: Millennial Perspectives celebrates the ongoing reception, over the last thousand years, of a masterpiece of classical Persian poetry. The epic of the Shahnama or Book of Kings glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian civilization from its mythologized beginnings all …
Singing Moses’s Song
A Performance-Critical Analysis of Deuteronomy’s Song of Moses
Häftad, 2016
177 kr
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How does performing affect those who perform? Starting from observation of the intergenerational tradition of performing the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32.1–43), Keith Stone explores ways in which the Song contributes to Deuteronomy’s educational program through the dynamics of reenactment that …
Study of al-Andalus
The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe
Av Michelle M. Hamilton, David A. Wacks
Häftad, 2018
227 kr
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The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction …
Illusion and Disillusionment
Travel Writing in the Modern Age
Häftad, 2018
183 kr
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Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters—China-bound missionaries, an Indo-Persian diplomat, a Turkish exile in India, …
