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In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India is a historical study of the discursive practices by which Zoroastrians struggled to define their communal identity through constructions of the central …
In the first half of the eleventh century CE, a series of narrative poems about love and lovers were composed in the eastern Iranian lands, marking the advent of what is now generally called the romance genre in Persian literature. However, sustained theoretical considerations o…
This study seeks to explore textual representations of Alexander the Great in Arabic and Persian literature of the first six Islamic centuries. It is particularly concerned with the symbolic connection Muslim writers in this time drew between Alexander and the religious and poli…
Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur (d. circa 616/1220) transformed the Sufi hagiography into an artistic and stylistic masterpiece in Ta d kiratu'l-awliya'/Memoir of the Saints. Though it is certain that Attar relied on the writings of earlier Sufi hagiographers, all of whom wrote i…
The idea that some poets in eighteenth and nineteenth century Iran revived Persian poetry by returning to the styles of the classical masters, while poets outside of Iran did not, has left a deep impression on how Persian literary history has come to be written. This idea, known…
This thesis uses Umberto Eco's concept of the Model Reader in order to analyze the textual strategies that Rumi's Masnavi utilizes to develop its ideal reader. Specifically it analyzes four strategically placed love stories in the Masnavi that come at the beginning, middle, and …
"The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, hi…
"The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, hi…