Shahnama studies II
Subtitle: the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama
By: edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg
Series: Studies in Persian cultural history -- v. 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004211278
Description: Shahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, completed by the poet Firdausi around 1010 AD. This long epic grew out to be an icon of Persian culture and served as a source of inspiration for art and literature, leaving its traces in manifold ways. The contributors to this volume each treat an aspect of the rich legacy of the Shahnama and offer new insights in Shahnama manuscript studies, the illustration of the Shahnama, the phenomenon of later epics, and the Shahnama in later texts and contexts.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: List of illustrations; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction / Charles Melville; title: PART I. THE RECEPTION OF THE SHAHNAMA: LATER EPICS: Tracking the Shahnama Tradition in Medieval Persian Folk Prose / Julia Rubanovich; title: Demons in the Persian Epic Cycle: The Div Shabrang in the Leiden Shabrangnama and in Shahnama Manuscripts / Gabrielle van den Berg; title: Faramarz's Expedition to Qannuj and Khargah: Mutual Influences of the Shahnama and the Longer Faramarznama / Marjolijn van Zutphen; title: The Influence of the Shahnama in the Extended Version of Arday Virafnama by Zartusht Bahram / Olga Yastrebova; title: Picturing Evil: Images of Divs and the Reception of the Shahnama / Francesca Leoni; title: PART II. THE SHAHNAMA IN NEIGHBOURING LANDS: The Reception of Firdausi's Shahnama Among the Ottomans / Jan Schmidt; title: The Illustration of the Shahnama and the Art of the Book in Ottoman Turkey / Zeren Tanindi; title: The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Lands of Rum / Lale Uluc; title: Bahram's feat of hunting dexterity as illustrated in Firdausi's Shahnama, Nizami's Haft paikar and Amir Khusrau's Hasht bihisht / Adeela Qureshi; title: The Samarqand Shahnamas in the Context of Dynastic Change / Karin Ruehrdanz; title: PART III. MANUSCRIPT STUDIES: Mapping Illustrated Folios of Shahnama Manuscripts: The Concept and Its Uses / Farhad Mehran; title: Shahnama Kings and Heroes in 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts / Bilha Moor; title: PART IV. ORAL TRADITIONS: FIELD REPORTS: Sistani legends about rustam and his descendants / Ivan Steblin-Kamensky; title: The Oral Variant of the Story of Barzu Amongst the Tajiks of Boysun / Ravshan Rahmoni; title: The Shahnama Oral Tradition in Contemporary Iran: The Cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan / Evangelos Venetis; title: General index.