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Shahnama studies II: the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama

Shahnama studies II: the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama
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ISBN 9004211276 (hbk.)
9789004211278 (hbk.)
Title Shahnama studies II : the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama / edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
Physical desc. xx, [26] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in Persian Cultural History 2
Note Papers presented at a conference under the auspices of the Shahnama Project, held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, 13-15 December 2007.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Charles Melville -- Pt. 1: The reception of the Shahnama: later epics. Tracking the Shahnama tradition in medieval Persian folk prose / Julia Rubanovich -- Demons in the Persian epic cycle: the div Shabrang in the Leiden Shabrangnama and in Shahnama manuscripts / Gabrielle van den Berg -- Faramarz's expedition to Qannuj and Khargah: mutual influences of the Shahnama and the longer Faramarznama / Marjolijn van Zutphen -- The influence of the Shahnama in the extended version of Arday Virafnama by Zartusht Bahram / Olga Yastrebova -- Picturing evil: images of divs and the reception of the Shahnama / Francesca Leoni -- Pt. 2: The Shahnama in neighbouring lands. The reception of Firdausi's Shahnama among the Ottomans / Jan Schmidt -- The illustration of the Shahnama and the art of the book in Ottoman Turkey / Zeren Tanındı -- The Shahnama of Firdausi in the lands of Rum / Lâle Uluç -- Bahram's feat of hunting dexterity as illustrated in Firdausi's Shahnama, Nizami's Haft paikar and Amir Khusrau's Hasht bihisht / Adeela Qureshi -- The Samarqand Shahnamas in the context of dynastic change / Karin Ruehrdanz -- Pt. 3: Manuscript studies. Mapping illustrated folios of Shahnama manuscripts: the concept and its uses / Farhad Mehran -- Shahnama kings and heroes in ʿAjaʾib al-Makhluqat illustrated manuscripts / Bilha Moor -- Pt. 4: Oral traditions: field reports. Sistani legends about Rustam and his descendants / Ivan Steblin-Kamensky -- The oral variant of the story of Barzu amongst the Tajiks of Boysun / Ravshun Rahmoni -- The Shahnama oral tradition in contemporary Iran: the cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan / Evangelos Venetis.
Person as subject Firdawsi -- Shahnamah -- Congresses
Subject Shahnama
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Congresses
Miniature painting, Iranian -- Congresses
Added name(s) Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter) 1951-
Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel 1967-
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