基本説明
The theme of this book is the wealth and diversity of Iranian culture.
Full Description
The theme of this book is the wealth and diversity of Iranian culture. It traces the role in seventeen essays of the literature as a social force in Iran, and through this approach provides original insights into the political and social history of the region. The book examines a variety of topics from medieval to modern Iran: the rules of prosody in Persian poetry; Sadiq Chubak's short stories; the authorship of "The History of Shah Isma'il"; available sources for the study of social history in late Qajar Iran; European secondary studies on the Safavid period; Shah Abbas's policy of deporting and resettling Armenians; the conversion of the Mongol rulers to Islam; the Barmakid system of administration; and Baihaqui's account of the Ghaznavid vazir, Hasanak.
Contents
A note on Persian prosody, Hubert Darke; hawk and dove in Sufi combat, Simon Digby; some general accounts of the Safavid and Afsharid period, primarily in English, John Emerson; rewriting the social history of late Qajar Iran, John Gurney; the deportation of the Armenians in 1604-1905 and Europe's myth of Shah Abbas, Edmund Herzig; the execution of Amir Hasanak the Vazir - some lessons for the historical sociology of Iran, Homa Katouzian; the Barmakid revolution in Islamic government, Hugh Kennedy; the end of Czarist rule in Iran, Paul Luft; a note on the Maqama form, M.C. Lyons; some notes on premodern Islamic social description, Louise Marlow; SacDi's Arabic Ghazals, John Mattock; allusion in Hafiz - Joseph and his brothers, Julie Scott Meisami; Padshsh-i Islam - the conversion of Sultan Mahmud Ghazan Khan, Charles Melville; the date and attribution of the "Ross Anonymous" - notes on a Persian history of Shah IsmaciL I, A.H. Morton; Mirza, Mashiti and Juja Kabab - some cases of anomalous noun phrase word order in Persia, John R. Perry; Sadiq Chubak's world-view; class, state and revolution - the case of the Iranian revolution, 1978-1979, A. Reza Sheikholeslami.
