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Shahnama studies II : the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama / edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg.

Contributor(s): Melville, C. P. (Charles Peter), 1951- | Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel, 1967-
Series: Studies in Persian cultural history ; v. 2Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: xx, 316 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9789004211278 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Firdawsī. ShāhnāmahDDC classification: 891/.5511 LOC classification: PK6459 | .S52 2012
Contents:
Contributors -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Charles Melville -- PART I. 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 -- PART II. 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 Tanindi -- The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Lands of Rum / Lale Uluc -- -- 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 -- PART III. MANUSCRIPT STUDIES: Mapping Illustrated Folios of Shahnama Manuscripts: The Concept and Its Uses / Farhad Mehran -- Shahnama Kings and Heroes in 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts / Bilha Moor -- PART IV. 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 / Ravshan Rahmoni -- The Shahnama Oral Tradition in Contemporary Iran: The Cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan / Evangelos Venetis -- General index.

Includes index.

Contributors -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Charles Melville -- PART I. 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 -- PART II. 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 Tanindi -- The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Lands of Rum / Lale Uluc -- -- 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 -- PART III. MANUSCRIPT STUDIES: Mapping Illustrated Folios of Shahnama Manuscripts: The Concept and Its Uses / Farhad Mehran -- Shahnama Kings and Heroes in 'Aja'ib al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts / Bilha Moor -- PART IV. 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 / Ravshan Rahmoni -- The Shahnama Oral Tradition in Contemporary Iran: The Cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan / Evangelos Venetis -- General index.