The Necklace of the Pleiades : Studies in Persian literature presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th birthday : 24 essays on Persian literature, culture and religion
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The Necklace of the Pleiades : Studies in Persian literature presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th birthday : 24 essays on Persian literature, culture and religion
（Iranian studies series / chief editor, A.A. Seyed-Gohrab）
Leiden University Press, c2010
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The Necklace of the Pleiades is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, history and religions, but of Middle Eastern and South Asian studies, as well. The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdowsi's Shahnama and other epics, the poetics and imagery of the ghazal and the qasida, Mughal court poetry, Sufism, Ismaili history, Baha'i literature, Iranian linguistics, the modern writer Sadeq Hedayat, and the reception of Salman Rushdie's novel in Persian translation. In Persian literature the Necklace of the Pleiades is a metaphor for the six or seven stars (Parvin, or Sorayya, high up in the constellation Taurus) which the heavens bestow, like precious pearls, upon a poet in gratitude and reward for composing a beautiful poem. The poem itself is compared to a string of pearls, with its carefully chosen words bored like unique pearls and strung in perfect metrical proportion.
As Hafiz puts it: You've sung a ghazal, pierced the pearls, come and sing it sweetly, Hafiz! The heavens strew the very Necklace of the Pleiades upon your verse.
Table of Contents
The Necklace of the Pleiades - 2 Table of Contents - 8 INTRODUCTION - 10 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF HESHMAT MOAYYAD - 16 I. Alexander Romance - 28 On Some Sources of Niz$m%'s Iskandarnma - 30 Sources and Art of Amir Khosrou's"The Alexandrine Mirror" - 40 II. The Epic Cycle - 56 Rostam and Zoroastrianism - 58 Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh - 72 Shirin and Other Female Archetypes in Firdausi's Shahnamah - 78 Editing the Shahnama:The Interface between Literary and Textual Criticism - 86 III. Religious Texts and Contexts - 114 The Creative Compiler:The Art of Rewriting in 'Attar's Takirat al-awlya' - 116 Shahriyar b. al-Hasan:A Persian Isma'ili da i' of the Fatimid age - 130 "In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned 'Ulama": A Mysterious Poem byQajar Court Poet Mirza Habib Allah Shirazi "Qa'ani" - 140 IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs - 158 A Life in Poetry: Hafiz's First Ghazal - 172 My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry1 - 192 V. Center and Periphery - 216 Sincerely Flattering Panegyrics: The Shrinking Ghaznavid Qasida - 218 Novelty, Tradition and Mughal Politics inNau'i's Suz u Gudaz - 260 Situating the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic Continuum - 276 IV. The Modern Period - 288 The Political Realm's Literary Convention:The Examples of 'Ishqi and Iqbal - 290 Re-membering Amrads and Amradnumas: Re-inventing the (Sedgwickian) Wheel - 304 The Title of Hedayat's Buf-e Kur [(The) Blind Owl)] - 318 Sadeq Hedayat, a Writer ahead of Time - 334 A Fenceless Garden - 346 Refuting Rushdie in Persian - 372 From Dawn's Art - 382 Backlist Iranian Studies Series: - 390
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