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Javanmardi: the ethics and practice of Persianate perfection

Javanmardi: the ethics and practice of Persianate perfection
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ISBN 1909942154 (hbk.)
9781909942158 (hbk.)
Title Javanmardi : the ethics and practice of Persianate perfection / edited by Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher London : Gingko Library, 2018
Physical desc. viii, 395 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series British Institute of Persian Studies series
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction. The felon, the faithful and the fighter: the protean face of the chivalric man (javanmard) in the medieval Persianate and modern Iranian worlds / Lloyd Ridgeon -- La Fata illa ʻAli wa la Sayf illa Dhu'l-Faqar: epigraphic ceramic platters from medieval Nishapur documenting esteem for ʻAli ebn Abi Taleb as the ideal fata / Raya Y. Shani -- From Naserian courtly-fotovvat to akhi-fotovvat: transformation of the fotovvat doctrine and communality in late medieval Anatolia / Rıza Yıldırım -- Akhi lodge, akhi architecture or akhi patronage? architecture of fotovvat-based associations in medieval Anatolia / Maxime Durocher -- The notion of erenler in the Divan-ı Şeyh Mehmed Çelebi (Hızırname) / Sibel Kocaer -- Fotovvat in Bosnia / Ines Aščerić-Todd -- Late medieval Armenian texts on fotovvat: translations in context / Rachel Goshgarian -- Adab in the workshop: concepts of fotovvat, proper conduct and moral economy in Central Asian craftsmanship / Jeanine Elif Dağyeli -- Zurkhaneh, Sufism, fotovvat/javanmardi and modernity: considerations about historical interpretations of a traditional athletic institution / Philippe Rochard and Denis Jallat -- Representation of the hero Tayyeb Hajj Rezaʼi: sociological reflections on javanmardi / Olmo Gölz -- Digital javanmardi: chivalric ethics and imagined Iran on the internet / Babak Rahimi -- Constructing masculinities through the javanmards in pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema / Nacim Pak-Shiraz -- Masculinity crisis and the javanmard icon in Iranian cinema / Farshad Zahedi.
Subject Islamic orders of knighthood and chivalry
Futuwwa (Islamic social groups)
Iran -- Civilization
Added name(s) Ridgeon, Lloyd V.J.
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