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Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the history of Iran: art, literature and culture from early Islam to Qajar Persia : studies in honour of Charles Melville
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1780760159 (hbk.)
9781780760155 (hbk.)
Title
Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the history of Iran : art, literature and culture from early Islam to Qajar Persia : studies in honour of Charles Melville / edited by Robert Hillenbrand, A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva
Publisher
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, 2013
Physical desc.
xxvi, 406 p., [24] p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Series
International library of Iranian studies 45
Bibliography etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Bibliography of Professor Charles Melville / compiled by Akram Khabibullaev -- Charles Melville and Persian Pembroke / Michael Kuczynski -- Studies on history and historiography. Iran and the ancient world. On the epithets of two Sasanian kings in the Mujmal al-tawarikh wa-l-qisas / Touraj Daryaee -- The changing face of an Iranian sacred place: the Takht-i Sulayman / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Legitimating tyrants: the heroic rulers of archaic and classical Greece / Lynette Mitchell -- History and historiography in the early Islamic East. Between Persian legend and Samanid orthodoxy: accounts about Gayumarth in Bal'ami's Tarikhnama / Maria Subtelny -- Recent contributions to the history of the early Ghaznavids and Seljuqs / C. Edmund Bosworth -- Idris 'Imad al-Din and medieval Ismaili historiography / Farhad Daftary -- The Kimiya-yi sa'adat (The alchemy of happiness) of al-Ghazali: a misunderstood work? / Carole Hillenbrand -- Help me if you can! an analysis of a letter sent by the last Seljuq sultan of Kirman / David Durand-Guédy -- 'Imad al-Din al-Isfahani's Nusrat al-fatra, Seljuq politics and Ayyubid origins / A.C.S. Peacock -- The rise and fall of a tyrant in Seljuq Anatolia: Sa'd al-Din Köpek's reign of terror, 1237-8 / Sara Nur Yildiz -- Mongol Iran and its neighbours. 'It is as if their aim were the extermination of the species': the Mongol devastation in Western Asia in the first half of the thirteenth century / Peter Jackson -- Juvayni's historical consciousness / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Persian and non-Persian historical writing in the Mongol Empire / David Morgan -- Ruling from tents: some remarks on women's ordos in Ilkhanid Iran / Bruno De Nicola -- Mamluks, Franks and Mongols: a necessary but impossible triangle / Reuven Amitai -- Protecting private property vs negotiating political authority: Nur al-Din b. Jaja and his endowments in thirteenth-century Anatolia / Judith Pfeiffer -- Nomads, rulers and historians after the Mongols. The Mongol puppet lords and the Qarawnas / Michele Bernardini -- Remarks on steppe nomads and merchants / Thomas T. Allsen -- Loyalty, betrayal and retribution: Biktrash Khan, Ya'qub Khan and Shah 'Abbas I's strategy in establishing control over Kirman, Yazd and Fars / Rudi Matthee -- Reading Safavid and Mughal chronicles: kingly virtues and early modern Persianate historiography / Sholeh A. Quinn -- British views of Qajar Iran. Sir John Malcolm and the idea of Iran / Ali M. Ansari -- Edward Granville Browne amongst the Qalandars / Jan Just Witkam -- Studies on Persian literature. Literary culture in the Persianate world. From Zulaykha to Zuleika Dobson: the femme fatale and her ordeals in Persian literature and beyond / Firuza Abdullaeva -- A pictorial aetiology of Ferdowsi as a transcendent poet / Olga M. Davidson -- The Armenian poet Frik and his verses on Arghun Khan and Bugha / Theo Maarten van Lint -- An epic for Shah 'Abbas / Gabrielle van den Berg -- The theory and practice of Persian verse. A note on form and substance in classical Persian poetry / Homa Katouzian -- Stringing replica pearls: translations of Persian verse into verse / Barbara Brend -- Persian and Islamic art. Aspects of religion. The Prophet Muhammad's footprint / Christiane Gruber -- Non-Islamic faiths in the Edinburgh Biruni manuscript / Robert Hillenbrand -- A tale of two minbars: woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the eve of the Ayyubids / Bernard O'Kane -- The arts of the book. Illuminating Shah Tahmasp's Shahnameh / Sheila R. Canby -- Rethinking Persian painting: the Silsila of Sultan Muhammad and the rise of sixteenth-century pictorial lacquer binding / Layla S. Diba -- Composite figures in the Hadiqat al-haqiqa wa Shari'at al-tariqa of Sana'i / Francis Richard -- A medieval representation of Kay Khusraw's jām-i gītī namāy / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- The Muraqqa' album of the Zand period (PNS 383) in the National Library of Russia / Olga V. Vasilyeva and Olga M. Yastrebova -- Interrogating marks in a Persian painting from fifteenth-century Herat - a note / Barbara Brend -- Secular images. Delicate displays: on a Safavid ceramic bottle in the museum of Cairo University / Sussan Babaie -- The return engagement of Rostam / Linda Komaroff.
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Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter) 1951-
Subject
Art, Iranian -- Themes, motives
Persian literature -- History and criticism
Iran -- History
Iran -- Civilization
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Hillenbrand, Robert
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Peacock, A. C. S. (Andrew C. S.)
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Abdullaeva, F. I. (Firiuza Ibodullaevna)
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