Format:
Online-Ressource (XX, 456 S)
ISBN:
9789004291836
Series Statement:
Jerusalem studies in religion and Culture 19
Content:
"The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function. Contributors are: Frantz Grenet, Jo-Ann Gross, Charles G. Häberl, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Reuven Kiperwasser, Ulrich Marzolph, Margaret A. Mills, Ravshan Rahmoni, Karl Reichl, Julia Rubanovich, Shaul Shaked, Raya Shani, Dan Y. Shapira, Maria E. Subtelny, Gabrielle R. van den Berg, Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Naama Vilozny, Mohsen Zakeri, and Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations; Introduction: New Perspectives on Orality in Iranian Studies; Part 1 Approaching Orality; Chapter 1 Memory and Textuality in the Orality-Literacy Continuum; Chapter 2 Orality and Esotericism: Reflections on Modes of Transmission in Late Antiquity; Part 2 Sacred Traditions and Oral History; Chapter 3 Irano-Talmudica III: Giant Mythological Creatures in Transition from the Avesta to the Babylonian Talmud
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Chapter 4 The Islamic Ascension Narrative in the Context of Conversion in Medieval Iran: An Apocalypse at the Intersection of Orality and TextualityChapter 5 The Motif of the Cave and the Funerary Narrativesof Nāṣir-i Khusrau; Part 3 Iranian Epic Tradition; Chapter 6 'The Ground Well Trodden But the Shah Not Found . . .': Orality and Textuality in the 'Book of Kings' and the Zoroastrian Mythoepic Tradition; Chapter 7 'The Book of the Black Demon,' or Shabrang-nāma, and the Black Demon in Oral Tradition; Chapter 8 Why So Many Stories? Untangling the Versions of Iskandar's Birth and Upbringing
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Chapter 9 Some Comments on the Probable Sources of Ibn Ḥusām's Khāvarān-nāma and the Oral Transmission of Epic MaterialsChapter 10 Professional Storytelling (naqqālī) in Qājār Iran; Part 4 Oral and Literary Traditions as Channels of Cultural Transformation; Chapter 11 The Literary Use of Proverbs and Myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau's Dīvān; Chapter 12 Classical Poetry as Cultural Capital in the Proverbs of Jews from Iran: Transformations of Intertextuality; Chapter 13 Gashtak: Oral/Literary Intertextuality, Performance and Identity in Contemporary Tajikistan
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Chapter 14 The Tale of 'The Old Woman on the Mountain': A Jewish Folktale from AfghanistanPart 5 Performative Aspects of Orality in Visual Artefacts; Chapter 15 Aramaic Incantation Texts between Orality and Textuality; Chapter 16 Between Demons and Kings: The Art of Babylonian Incantation Bowls; Chapter 17 Between Written Texts, Oral Performances and Mural Paintings: Illustrated Scrolls in Pre-Islamic Central Asia; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004291973
Additional Edition:
Print version Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World Patterns of Interaction Across the Centuries
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Iran
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Geistesleben
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Persisch
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Literatur
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Aufsatzsammlung
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