Converging zones
Subtitle: Persian literary tradition and the writing of history : studies in honor of Amin Banani
By: edited By Wali Ahmadi
Contributors: Banani, Amin
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Costa Mesa, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781568592831
Subjects: Persian literature; Civilization; Literature and history; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A friend's tribute to Amin Banani / Firuz Kazemzadeh; title: On the coming of a Zoroastrian Messiah: a middle Persian poem on history and apocalypticism in early medieval Islamic Iran / Touraj Daryaee; title: A primary Armenian source on land tenure in the Khanate of Iravan (Erevan) from the 16th to the 18th Centuries / George Bournoutian; title: Cycle of neglect: filial relationships and preparation for kingship :   the case of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza / Latifeh E. Hagigi; title: The reform of Iranian nomenclature and titulature in the fifth majles / H.E. Chehabi; title: Impact of the Constitutional Revolution on the development of a modern state in Iran / Omid Uskowi and A. Reza Sheikholeslami; title: Suhravardi's "The sound of Gabriel's wings" and its relation to Avicennan cosmology / Herbert A. Davidson; title: Nur al-Fu'ad, a Persian treatise in illuminationist philosophy & a Persian handbook on ophthalmology / Hossein Ziai; title: A perfect tragedy / Ehsan Yarshater; title: On teaching Attar's Conference of the birds to Anglophone readers / Dick Davis; title: "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; title: Love, separation, and reunion: the master-narrative of the human condition in Persian mystical poetry / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak; title: Iqbal and the Predicaments of identity formation / Wali Ahmadi; title: The visual poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad in The house is black / Farzaneh Milani; title: Le projet d'une civilisation mondiale dans les ecrits de Baha'ullah / Shapour Rassekh.