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Shahnama Studies III : The Reception of the Shahnama.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Persian Cultural History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (451 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004356252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shahnama Studies IIIDDC classification:
  • 891.551109
LOC classification:
  • PK6416 .V36 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Note on Citations of the Shahnama -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Reception of the Shahnama: Later Epics -- Chapter 1 Banu Gushasp in the Shahnama: A Case Study of the British Library Ms. Or. 2926 and the Interpolated Banu Gushaspnama -- Chapter 2 The Demon Barkhiyas at the Well of Bizhan -- Chapter 3 Rustam's Grandson in Central Asia: The Sistan Cycle Epics and the Shahnama Tradition -- Chapter 4 The Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Persian Epics: The Case of the Barzunama in the Haft Lashkar -- Chapter 5 A New Manuscript of the Shahriyarnama Attributed to Mukhtari of Ghazna from the Collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust -- Part 2 The Shahnama in Later Contexts -- Chapter 6 The Shahnama in Timurid Historiography -- Chapter 7 The Sulaiman-nama (Süleyman-name) as an Historical Source -- Chapter 8 A Storyteller's Shahnama: Meddâh Medhî and His Şehnâme-i ̇Türkî -- Chapter 9 The Shahnama Legacy in a Late 15th-Century Illustrated Copy of Ibn Husam's Khavaran-nama, the Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750 -- Part 3 Textual Studies -- Chapter 10 Persian Medieval Rewriters Between Auctoritas and Authorship: The Story of Khusrau and Shirin as a Case-Study -- Chapter 11 Rebels, Virtuous Adorers and Successors: The Agentic Daughters of the Shahnama -- Part 4 Art History and Manuscript Studies -- Chapter 12 Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva: Two Unpublished Lustre Tiles with Shahnama Verses -- Chapter 13 Illustration as Localization: A Dispersed Bijapuri Manuscript of the Shahnama -- Chapter 14 The Baysunghuri Manuscript in the Malek National Library -- Index.
Summary: Shahnama Studies III offers new insights into the reception of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, composed by the Persian poet Firdausi in the 10th-11th century in eastern Iran.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Note on Citations of the Shahnama -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Reception of the Shahnama: Later Epics -- Chapter 1 Banu Gushasp in the Shahnama: A Case Study of the British Library Ms. Or. 2926 and the Interpolated Banu Gushaspnama -- Chapter 2 The Demon Barkhiyas at the Well of Bizhan -- Chapter 3 Rustam's Grandson in Central Asia: The Sistan Cycle Epics and the Shahnama Tradition -- Chapter 4 The Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Persian Epics: The Case of the Barzunama in the Haft Lashkar -- Chapter 5 A New Manuscript of the Shahriyarnama Attributed to Mukhtari of Ghazna from the Collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust -- Part 2 The Shahnama in Later Contexts -- Chapter 6 The Shahnama in Timurid Historiography -- Chapter 7 The Sulaiman-nama (Süleyman-name) as an Historical Source -- Chapter 8 A Storyteller's Shahnama: Meddâh Medhî and His Şehnâme-i ̇Türkî -- Chapter 9 The Shahnama Legacy in a Late 15th-Century Illustrated Copy of Ibn Husam's Khavaran-nama, the Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750 -- Part 3 Textual Studies -- Chapter 10 Persian Medieval Rewriters Between Auctoritas and Authorship: The Story of Khusrau and Shirin as a Case-Study -- Chapter 11 Rebels, Virtuous Adorers and Successors: The Agentic Daughters of the Shahnama -- Part 4 Art History and Manuscript Studies -- Chapter 12 Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva: Two Unpublished Lustre Tiles with Shahnama Verses -- Chapter 13 Illustration as Localization: A Dispersed Bijapuri Manuscript of the Shahnama -- Chapter 14 The Baysunghuri Manuscript in the Malek National Library -- Index.

Shahnama Studies III offers new insights into the reception of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, composed by the Persian poet Firdausi in the 10th-11th century in eastern Iran.

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