Shahnama Studies III

The Reception of the Shahnama
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-35624-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Reihe: Studies in Persian Cultural History

Shahnama Studies III focuses on the hugely successful afterlife of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, completed by the poet Firdausi around 1010 AD. This long epic grew out to be an icon of Persian culture and served as a source of inspiration for art and literature, leaving its traces in manifold ways. The contributors to this volume each treat an aspect of the rich legacy of the Shahnama and offer new insights in Shahnama manuscript studies, the illustration of the Shahnama, the phenomenon of later epics, and the Shahnama in later texts and contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berg, Gabrielle R. van den

Melville, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Contributors.
List of illustrations.
Abbreviations.

Introduction
Gabrielle van den Berg.

PART ONE
THE RECEPTION OF THE SHAHNAMA: LATER EPICS

Banu Gushasp in the Shahnama: A case study of the British Library
Ms. Or. 2926 and the interpolated Banu Gushaspnama
Marjolijn van Zutphen.

The demon Barkhiyas at the well of Bizhan. Two versions
Charles Melville.

Rustam’s grandson in Central Asia: the Sistan Cycle epics and the
Shahnama tradition
Gabrielle van den Berg.

The Barzunama as told by storytellers: Description and analysis
Kumiko Yamamoto.

Notes on the manuscript of the Shahriyarnama attributed to Mukhtari
of Ghazna from the collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust
Maria Szuppe.

PART TWO
THE SHAHNAMA IN LATER CONTEXTS

The Shahnama in Timurid historiography
Michele Bernardini.

The Sulayman-nama (Süleyman-name) as an historical source
Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz.

A storyteller’s Shahnama: Meddâh Medhî and his Sehnâme-i Türkî
Tülün Dergirmenci.

The Shahnama legacy in a late 15th-century illustrated copy of Ibn Husam’s
Khavaran-nama, the Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750
Raya Shani.

PART THREE
TEXTUAL STUDIES

Persian medieval rewriters between auctoritas and authorship:
The story of Khusrau and Shirin as a case study
Christine van Ruymbeke.

Rebels, virtual adorers and successors: The agentic daughters of
the Shahnama
Alyssa Gabbay.

PART FOUR
ART HISTORY AND MANUSCRIPT STUDIES

Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva: Two
unpublished lustre tiles with Shahnama verses
Firuza Melville.

Illustration as localization: A dispersed Bijapuri manuscript of
the Shahnama
Laura Weinstein.

The Shahnama of Baysunghur in the Malek Library
Shiva Mihan.

General Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gabrielle van den Berg, PhD (1997), University of Leiden, is Senior University Lecturer in the Cultural History of Central Asia and Iran. She has published on classical Persian literature and on the oral traditions of Central Asia.

Charles Melville, PhD (1978), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Persian History at Cambridge. He has published on the history of Iran from the Mongols to the Safavids, Persian historiography, and the Shahnama of Firdausi.

Contributors: Michele Bernardini, Tülün Degirmenci, Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, Alyssa Gabbay, Charles Melville, Firuza Melville, Shiva Mihan, Raya Shani, Maria Szuppe, Gabrielle van den Berg, Christine van Ruymbeke, Marjolijn van Zutphen, Laura Weinstein, and Kumiko Yamamoto