Oral Literature of Iranian Languages: Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, Ossetic; Persian and Tajik: Companion Volume II History of Persian Literature A, Vol XVIII

by Kreyenbroek, Philip G.; Marzolph, Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9781845119188
• ISBN10: 1845119185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia. It has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others and praised by William Jones, Tagore, E. M. Forster and many more. Yet although in the past few years the poems of Rumi have attracted the kind of popular attention enjoyed by Omar Khayyam in the 19th century, Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves.A History of Persian Literature answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. Prominent scholars in the field bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic and each volume includes representative samples of this literature.In this volume, the Editors offer an indispensable overview of Persian literature's long and rich historiography. Highlighting the central themes and ideas which inform historical writing, this book traces the development of writing about history as a literary form from its origins with the Ferdowsi Shahnameh and its evolution under the Safavids, through the twilight of the Court Chronicle Tradition and simultaneous emergence of a national historiography during the 18th century and up to the Pahlavi Era. This volume also offers a comprehensive and invaluable examination of the concurrent developments within historiography in Central Asia and Afghanistan, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. Persian Historiography will be an indispensable source for the historiographical traditions of Iran and the essential guide to the subject.

Author Biography

Philip G. Kreyenbroek is Professor of Iranian Studies at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, and Director of the "Seminar on Iranian Studies."  His publications include Sraoša in the Zoroastrian Tradition and Yezidism: Its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition.

Ulrich Marzolph is Professor of Islamic Studies at Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, and a senior member of the editorial committee of the Encyclopaedia of Fairy Tales. He has published widely on the narrative culture of the Islamic Near and Middle East, particularly those aspects relating to classical and modern folktales as well as jokes and anecdotes in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish.

Table of Contents

* Foreword * Introduction * Preface * Written Kurdish Literature -- Joyce Blau * Kurdish Oral Literature -- Christine Allison * Orality and Religion in Kurdistan: The Yezidi and Ahl-e Haqq Traditions -- Philip G. Kreyenbroek * Pashto Literature: The Classical Period -- Sergei Andreyev * Modern Pashto Written Literature -- Leonard N. Bartlotti * Pashto Oral and Popular Literature -- Wilma Heston * Balochi Literature -- Josef Elfenbein * Ossetic Literature -- Fridrik Thordarson * Persian Popular Literature -- Ulrich Marzolph * Naqqâli: Professional Iranian Storytelling -- Kumiko Yamamoto * Kâshefi’s Rowzat Al-Shohadâ’: The Karbala Narrative as Underpinning of Popular Religious Culture and Literature -- Peter Chelkowski * The Popular Literature of the Tajiks -- Ravshan Rahmoni * Oral and Popular Literature in Dari Persian of Afghanistan -- Margaret A. Mills * Bibliographies * Index *

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