The work of the Persian poet Mas'ud Sa'd Salmân (d. 1121 C.E.) is studied by situating him in his appropriate historical and cultural context, while exploring the idea that writing at the frontier of empire contributed to various types of innovations in his poetry. There is a pe…
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This study focuses on the musical activities and views of Iranian immigrant artists who perform, teach, and support traditional Iranian music in Los Angeles and Southern California. This geographic area and its interconnected social networks, which I refer to as Irangeles, is pa…
This study measures the impact of intergenerational acculturation gaps on overall family functioning with second-generation Iranian Americans. It was hypothesized that significantly larger differences in acculturation level between the participants and their first-generation par…
This dissertation investigates the evidence for shift-induced interference in the case-marking system of Turkic languages. Through comparative analysis, it demonstrates that the range of meanings and functions expressed by case markers in modern Turkic languages, such as Uzbek, …
This study attempts to explore the history of one of the largest, most prosperous and influential sees of the seventeenth century Armenian Church. Created in 1605 and centered in New Julfa, a suburb of Isfahan, the capital of Safavid Iran, for almost a century, the diocese of Ne…
This study is a translation from Persian to English of a previously untranslated work by a renowned 20ᵗʰ century Sufi Master, who is representative of a 1,400 year Sufi heritage, titled Chanteh--The Gnostic's Cosmos. The translation includes the Author's Introduction in prose, a…
This dissertation delineates two new political and cultural visions that emerged in Central Asia in the eighteenth century. These visions shaped Central Asia's political and cultural boundaries and its perception of self-image, and became the mode of cultural discourse in that p…
This thesis is a study of how diasporic Iranian identities are represented in commercial food spaces in London and Vancouver. I look at how these identities are represented in both Iranian and non-Iranian commercial spaces such as grocery stores, restaurants and food stalls. My …
From the time she began publishing in 1954 to her death at 32 in a car accident about thirteen years later, Forugh Farrokhzâd composed poetry that challenged some of the most fundamental precepts of conservative, patriarchal Iranian society. She wrote openly autobiographical poe…
This study examines the state of the maintenance of Persian language among Iranians in the United States. This study is important for two reasons. First, this study is the first in its kind to examine the data from secondary sources such as U.S. Census data, Homeland Security, a…
This thesis is an analysis of the patterns of change and continuity in Iranian foreign policy since 1968 using the 1823 Monroe Doctrine as a theoretical framework. In so doing, it will demonstrate that Iran's past and present foreign policy objectives have followed a pattern bes…
Elisa` ben Semuel's Sahzadeh va S[dotbelow]ufi or "The Prince and the Sufi," is mentioned in practically every published survey of JP literature. It has been recognized as a major JP work as well as an important branch in the genealogical tree of Buddha biographies; yet no criti…
This thesis studies the argument structure and formation of the very productive and frequent complex verbal structures in Modern Farsi (MF), i.e., Persian, known as compound verbs or Complex Predicates (CP). CPs are complex verbal structures made up of a preverbal element (PV) a…
The era of the Timurids, the dynasty that ruled Transoxiana, Iran, and Afghanistan from 1370 to 1506 had a profound cultural and artistic impact on the history of Central Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal India in the early modern era. While Timurid fine art such as miniature…
This work investigates two distinct constructions which appear to induce a constraint on verbal agreement. The first construction involves inanimate plural subjects and verbs appearing in third person singular/default morphology. Adopting the framework of Distributed Morphology …
In the highly developed field of Persian-English lexicography a major gap exists in the area of colloquial, slang, and argot in Persian. To date, no Persian-English Dictionary of Persian colloquial slang, or argot language exists. This study fills this gap. The dissertation prop…
This thesis is a detailed investigation of the phonology and phonetics of the intonation of Persian carried out in the framework of the AM theory of intonational phonology. Based on 2112 utterances read by a total of 8 native speakers, the work, on the one hand, presents a phono…
The intent of the present course of inquiry is to examine historical Persian phonology in light of advances in Optimality Theory (OT) as applied to language change and variation, and in doing so to present a historical reconstruction of Proto-Modern-Persian (henceforth Proto-Per…
In the present study we investigated the relative importance of phonological and orthographic skills in Persian children's reading and spelling development. Persian has a mixed orthography that allows one to study within one language characteristics typically found in shallow or…
This thesis explores the nuances of three parallel processes in Mughal literary and religious culture: Persianization, Islamicization and Indicization. I examine the literary responses of Mughal authors--Muh[dotbelow]ammad Jayasdi, Moh[dotbelow]ammad Shakir, `Aqil K[dotbelow]han…