The Kurdish Šāhnāma and its literary and religious implications
By: Behrooz Chaman Ara
Contributors: Firdawsī
Publisher: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781511523493
Subjects: Gurani literature; History and criticism; Kurdish literature; Kurdish Folk poetry
Description: The Kurdish Shanama and its Literary and Religious Implications, as the result of a long-time fieldwork in the cultural spans of Zagros, focuses on the newly survived epic-heroic narratives known as Razm-nama, Jang-nama or Shanama. In this work, the author draws attention to the existence of an unexpectedly rich epic-heroic tradition in literary Gurani (a composite idiom used in the Zagros regions) and strongly suggest that this tradition is largely independent of the Ferdowsi's Shahnama but has many common features with other works of the Sistani cycle of epics and the Persian Naqqali tradition. This work addresses the structural and contextual similarities and differences between this tradition and its counterparts in Persian literature, and subsequently proposes a new understanding of the term Shahnama and the term Xwadaynamag. In this work, Chaman Ara challenges the common understandings of the concept of Gurani, and presents analysis and descriptions of some linguistic features of the theory of the Gurani literary language.
Notes: Originally published as author's doctoral dissertation -- Göttingen, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-343).

In English and Gurani.