Part 1. 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 / Charles Melville -- Rustam's Grandson in Central Asia : The Sistan Cycle Epics and the Shahnama Tradition / Gabrielle van den Berg -- The Interplay of Oral and Written Traditions in Persian Epics : The Case of the Barzunama in the Haft Lashkar / Kumiko Yamamoto -- A New Manuscript of the Shahriyarnama Attributed to Mukhtari of Ghazna from the Collection of the Ancient India and Iran Trust / Maria Szuppe -- Part 2. The Shahnama in Later Contexts -- The Shahnama in Timurid Historiography / Michele Bernardini -- The Sulaiman-nama (Suleyman-name) as an Historical Source / Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz -- A Storyteller's Shahnama : Meddah Medhi and His Sehname-i Turki / Tulun Dergirmenci -- The Shahnama Legacy in a Late 15th-Century Illustrated Copy of Ibn HusAm's Khavaran-nama, the Gulist An Palace Library, Tehran, Ms. 5750 216 / Raya Shani -- Part 3. Textual Studies -- Persian Medieval Rewriters Between Auctoritas and Authorship : The Story of Khusrau and Shirin as a Case-Study / Christine van Ruymbeke -- Rebels, Virtuous Adorers And Successors : The Agentic Daughters of the Shahnama / Alyssa Gabbay -- Part 4. Art History and Manuscript Studies -- Zahhak from Cambridge and Bahram Gur from Geneva : Two Unpublished Lustre Tiles with Shahnama Verses / Firuza Melville -- Illustration as Localization : A Dispersed Bijapuri Manuscript of the Shahnama / Laura Weinstein -- The Baysunghuri Manuscript in the Malek National Library / Shiva Mihan.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Studies in Persian cultural history, 2210-3554 ; volume 12
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