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{"title":"IRN volume 56 issue 4 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.64","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136093665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The American College of Tehran: A Memorial Album, 1932. Edited by Ali Gheissari (Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies and University of California, 2020). Hardcover, 464 pp. ISBN: 978-1949743227
{"title":"The American College of Tehran: A Memorial Album, 1932. Edited by Ali Gheissari (Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies and University of California, 2020). Hardcover, 464 pp. ISBN: 978-1949743227","authors":"Mahdi Ganjavi","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.59","url":null,"abstract":"The American College of Tehran: A Memorial Album, 1932. Edited by Ali Gheissari (Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies and University of California, 2020). Hardcover, 464 pp. ISBN: 978-1949743227","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135537910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article presents a new reading of the Dārāb-nāma (Book of Dārāb, ca. eleventh–twelfth century), a medieval popular narrative in prose ( dāstān ) ascribed to the storyteller Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī. While the narrative belongs to the Persian tradition of the Alexander romance, the Alexander figure it depicts bears little resemblance to that presented in high classical verse-forms by the likes of Firdawsī, Niẓāmī, Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, or Jāmī. Although still a conqueror, legitimate ruler, and champion of Islam, the Alexander of the Dārāb-nāma appears in a strongly negative light: he is lame, cowardly, and sly. In fact, most of his success he owes to his once opponent and later wife, Būrān-dukht: could she be the true hero in the story? Drawing on a critical examination of characters based on Greimas's actantial model, this study probes the authorial program and intended audience of the Dārāb-nāma , and suggests the work can be read as mock-epic, possibly to cater to a Zoroastrian audience.
{"title":"Alexander the Great or Būrān-Dukht: who is the true hero of the <i>Dārāb-nāma</i> of Ṭarsūsī?","authors":"Marina Gaillard","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.49","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents a new reading of the Dārāb-nāma (Book of Dārāb, ca. eleventh–twelfth century), a medieval popular narrative in prose ( dāstān ) ascribed to the storyteller Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī. While the narrative belongs to the Persian tradition of the Alexander romance, the Alexander figure it depicts bears little resemblance to that presented in high classical verse-forms by the likes of Firdawsī, Niẓāmī, Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, or Jāmī. Although still a conqueror, legitimate ruler, and champion of Islam, the Alexander of the Dārāb-nāma appears in a strongly negative light: he is lame, cowardly, and sly. In fact, most of his success he owes to his once opponent and later wife, Būrān-dukht: could she be the true hero in the story? Drawing on a critical examination of characters based on Greimas's actantial model, this study probes the authorial program and intended audience of the Dārāb-nāma , and suggests the work can be read as mock-epic, possibly to cater to a Zoroastrian audience.","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134957892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract While the functioning of the postal system in Iran before 1500 and after 1800 has been studied, this article analyzes, based entirely on primary sources, the operation and characteristics of the Iranian postal system between 1500 and 1800 for the very first time. Such a study enables scholars to better understand the functioning of communication between both government officials and private individuals in Safavid, Afshari, and Zand Iran. During this time, there were two types of messengers: express-mounted couriers ( chapar ) for official business and foot messengers ( shater s) for both official and private mail. The designation of qased was rarely used to denote mail foot messengers.
{"title":"The Postal System in Safavid, Afsharid, and Zand Iran","authors":"Willem Floor","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.51","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While the functioning of the postal system in Iran before 1500 and after 1800 has been studied, this article analyzes, based entirely on primary sources, the operation and characteristics of the Iranian postal system between 1500 and 1800 for the very first time. Such a study enables scholars to better understand the functioning of communication between both government officials and private individuals in Safavid, Afshari, and Zand Iran. During this time, there were two types of messengers: express-mounted couriers ( chapar ) for official business and foot messengers ( shater s) for both official and private mail. The designation of qased was rarely used to denote mail foot messengers.","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Initially drawn to anthologies as a methodology to tell a social history of Isfahan, Babayan encountered in maj-mu`ah s and muraqq`as a discursive world that allowed for a new reading of social interaction and intimacy in the early modern Persianate urban environment. The City as Anthology , although slightly unwieldy at times as it shifts from detailed case study to detailed case study, is none-theless extremely effective in its careful approach to a unique and complicated genre of archival material; the implications of these innovative readings are, in turn, powerfully conveyed by Babayan in an intricate prose and style of argumentation. In addition to introducing and reha-bilitating this genre of anthologies, this study provides a “ fresh take ” and effectively re-aligns how we understand and interpret the constructs of gender and sexuality in Safavid Iran.
{"title":"Kamran Talattof. <i>Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic</i>, Palgrave MacMillan, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-97989-8, 284 pp.","authors":"Zhinia Noorian","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"Initially drawn to anthologies as a methodology to tell a social history of Isfahan, Babayan encountered in maj-mu`ah s and muraqq`as a discursive world that allowed for a new reading of social interaction and intimacy in the early modern Persianate urban environment. The City as Anthology , although slightly unwieldy at times as it shifts from detailed case study to detailed case study, is none-theless extremely effective in its careful approach to a unique and complicated genre of archival material; the implications of these innovative readings are, in turn, powerfully conveyed by Babayan in an intricate prose and style of argumentation. In addition to introducing and reha-bilitating this genre of anthologies, this study provides a “ fresh take ” and effectively re-aligns how we understand and interpret the constructs of gender and sexuality in Safavid Iran.","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract As a practice and experience, ta'zieh lies at the crossroads between ritual and performance, collective lament and recollection, literature, and folklore. Focusing on the experience of the spectator, this paper discusses ta'zieh's liminal status and diverse functions in Iran today. This study is based on observations gathered during fieldwork in the fall of 2017 in Tehran (Grand Bazaar), Isfahan (Falāvarjān), and Kashan (Nushābād). By way of comparison, we further reflect on a video installation by Abbas Kiarostami presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2003, which challenges common assumptions about the aesthetic and religious effectiveness of ta'zieh. The contrast allows us to elucidate how, by renovating ancient narrative forms, contemporary Iranian performing arts partake in the shaping of individual affects as well as communal emotions.
作为一种实践和体验，打子戏处于仪式与表演、集体悲叹与回忆、文学与民俗的十字路口。本文以观众的体验为中心，探讨了ta’zieh在当今伊朗的有限地位和多种功能。本研究基于2017年秋季在德黑兰(大巴扎)、伊斯法罕(Falāvarjān)和卡尚(Nushābād)实地调查期间收集的观察结果。通过比较，我们进一步思考Abbas Kiarostami于2003年在巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心(Centre Georges Pompidou)展出的一件录像装置，它挑战了人们对塔齐耶的审美和宗教效果的普遍假设。这种对比使我们能够阐明，当代伊朗表演艺术如何通过翻新古老的叙事形式，参与塑造个人情感和公共情感。
{"title":"From ritual to performance: Ta'zieh in Iran today","authors":"Yassaman Khajehi, Christian Biet","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.43","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As a practice and experience, ta'zieh lies at the crossroads between ritual and performance, collective lament and recollection, literature, and folklore. Focusing on the experience of the spectator, this paper discusses ta'zieh's liminal status and diverse functions in Iran today. This study is based on observations gathered during fieldwork in the fall of 2017 in Tehran (Grand Bazaar), Isfahan (Falāvarjān), and Kashan (Nushābād). By way of comparison, we further reflect on a video installation by Abbas Kiarostami presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2003, which challenges common assumptions about the aesthetic and religious effectiveness of ta'zieh. The contrast allows us to elucidate how, by renovating ancient narrative forms, contemporary Iranian performing arts partake in the shaping of individual affects as well as communal emotions.","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"671 - 684"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82439393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ali Gholipour, Parvaresh-e zogh-e āmme dar asr-e pahlavi: tarbiyat-e zibashenakhti-ye mellat dar siyasatgozari-ye farhangi-ye dolat [Cultivating the Public Taste in the Pahlavi Era: Aesthetic Upbringing of the Nation in the State's Cultural Policy] (Tehran, Iran, Nazar Publishing, 2019)","authors":"Ali Papoliyazdi","doi":"10.1017/irn.2023.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2023.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46025,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"852 - 852"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81794882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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