The Iranian cultural area is much larger than the area covered by the modern states of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Iranian languages are spoken in an area stretching from China to Turkey and from the Caucasus to Iraq. Persian is the most widespread Iranian language and has been until quite recently a lingua franca and a literary language in large parts of Central Asia and India. As the language of refined culture, Persian has deeply influenced the literary output of the Ottoman and the Moghul empires. In this course, a wide range of subjects is treated and discussed concerning Persian literature produced outside Iran proper.
The course will be given as a weekly seminar of two hours. In the first hour a general outline of the subject in question is given, and the second hour is devoted to an analysis of primary sources, i.e. texts, images or audiovisual material. The student is asked to participate actively in the latter part of each seminar by preparing a review, an analysis or a translation of selected sources, made available by the lecturer beforehand. Each student will be expected to give two presentations and to hand in an essay of 3,000 words at the end of the course on a specific topic from the overview.
Rooster
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Onderwijsvorm
Seminar.
Literatuur
See ‘Overview’.
Toetsing
Paper and presentations.
Informatie
Dr G.R. van den Berg, dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Matthias de Vrieshof 4, Witte Singel 25, room 109B Tel.: ** 31 (0) 71- 527 22 87.
Blackboard/webpagina
Yes.
Overzicht
The programme is provisional and subject to change.
1. The Rise of the New Persian Language in Transoxiana and Sistan
Richard N. Frye, “The Samanids”, in Cambridge History of Iran, vol. IV, 136-161, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975.
Gilbert Lazard, “The Rise of the New Persian Language” in Cambridge History of Iran, vol. IV, 595-632, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1975.
Ludwig Paul, Persian Origins: Early Judeao-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003.
The Tārikh-e Sistān, translated by Milton Gold, Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, Roma 1976.
2. Iran and Turan: Imagination and Geography in the Persian Book of Kings
William Hanaway, ‘The Iranian Epics’, in Heroic Epic and Saga, ed. Felix Oinas, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & London 1978, 77-98.
Dick Davis, The Legend of Seyavash, Penguin, London 1992.
Sylvia Tomasch, Sealy Gilles (eds) Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1998.
3. The Flourishing of Persian Culture at the Ghaznavid Court
Abu al-Fazl Muhammad b. Husayn Bayhaqi, Tārikh-i Bayhaqi, ed. Katib Rahbar, 1373/1994.
Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994-1040, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1963.
Jerome Clinton, The Divan of Manuchihri Damghani. A Critical Study. Bibliotheca Islamica, Minneapolis 1972; Julie Scott Meisami, “Ghaznavid Panegyrical Odes. Some Political Implications”, in Iran XXVIII (1990) 31-44.
4. Marching Eastwards: The Ghaznavids in Lahore
Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The Later Ghaznavids - Splendour and Decay, the Dynasty in Afghanistan and Northern India 1040-1186. Columbia University Press, New York 1977.
J.T.P. de Bruijn, Of Piety and Poetry. The Interaction of Religion and Literature in the Life and Works of Hakim Sanā’i of Ghazna. Brill, Leiden 1983.
Sharma, Sunil, Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas’ud Sa’d Salmān of Lahore, Permanent Black, Delhi 2000
5. Patronage and Art: Persian Illustrated Manuscripts in the Mongol and Timurid Era
Oleg Grabar, Cynthia Robinson (eds), Islamic Art and Literature, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, 2001.
Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni ,Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994.
Maria Szuppe, L’héritage timouride. Iran, Asia centrale, Inde, XV-e-XVIIIe siècles. IFÉAC, Tashkent, 1997.
A Century of Princes: Sources on Timurid History and Art, selected and translated by Wheeler M. Thackston, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Cambridge, Mass. 1989.
6. Persian literature, India and the Indian Style: From Amir Khusraw to Iqbal
Muzaffar Alam, F. Nalini Delvoye, Marc Gaborieau (eds), The Making of Indo-Persian Culture, Manohar, New Delhi 2000.
Yves Porter, Peinture et arts du livre: essai sur la literature technique indo-persane, IFRI, Leuven 1992.
Annemarie Schimmel, “Persian Poetry in the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent” in Persian Literature, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Bibliotheca Persica, Albany, N.Y. 1988, 405-421.
Ehsan Yarshater, “The Indian or Safavid Style: Progress or Decline?” in Persian Literature, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Bibliotheca Persica, Albany, N.Y. 1988, 249-288.
Paul Losensky, Welcoming Fighani: Imitation and Poetic Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal, Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1998.
7. Persian literature and art in the Moghul Empire: Babur and his heritage
Stephen F. Dale, _The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India _(1483-1530), Brill, Leiden 2004.
Muhammad Abdul Ghani, A History of Persian Language and Literature at the Mughal Court, Indian Press, Allahabad 1930.
Mutribi al-Asamm of Samarqand, Conversations with Emperor Jahangir, translated by Richard Foltz, Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1998.
Wheeler M. Thackston (ed.) The Baburnama. Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1996.
8. Turk-u Tajik, Shir-u shakar: The 15th century Poets Jami and Nava’i and the Development of Persianate Culture in Central Asia
A.J. Arberry, “Jami”, in Classical Persian Literature, Curzon, Richmond, Surrey 1994 (reprint of 1958), 425-450.
Margaret Sharon Feary, Nava’i’s Turkic and Persian Quatrains: Discourse Typology and the Bilingual Poet, s.n., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1977.
Bert Fragner, Die “Persophonie”: Regionalität, Identität und Sprachkontakt in der Geschichte Asiens. ANOR 5, 1999.
Bakhtiar Nazarov et al, Essays on Uzbek History, Culture and Language, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1993.
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Persian Poetry, Painting and Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth Century Masterpiece, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998.
Maria Szuppe, Entre Timourides, Uzbeks et Safavides: questions d’histoire politique et sociale de Hérat dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, Association pour l’avancement des etudes iraniennes, Paris, 1992.
9. The British Empire in India: The Effects of Travelling and Colonisation on Persian Studies in Europe, with specific reference to the heritage of Sir William Jones
A.J. Arberry, Asiatic Jones: The Life and Influence of Sir William Jones (1746-1794), pioneer of Indian Studies, Longmans, Green and co, London 1946.
Raphael Arnold, William Jones: ein Orientalist zwischen Kolonialismus und Aufklärung, Ergon Verlag, Würzberg 2001.
Garland Hampton Cannon, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones: Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990.
Alexander Murray, Sir William Jones, 1746-1794: A Commemoration, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998.
10. From Persian to Tajik: Politics and Literature in 20th century Central Asia
Sadriddin Aini, The Sands of the Oxus: Boyhood Reminiscences of Sadriddin Aini, translated by John R. Perry, Mazda, Costa Mesa, 1998.
Lutz Rzehak, Vom Persischen zum Tadschikischen, Reichert, Wiesbaden 2001.
Muhammad Sharif-i Sadr-i Ziya, The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual: The Diary of Muhammad Sharif-i Sadr-i Ziya, translated by Rustam Shukurov, Brill, Leiden 2004.
11. Orality and Literacy in modern Afghanistan
William Hanaway, ‘Dāstānsarā’i’, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-, vol. VII, 102-103.
Margaret Mills, ‘Afghanistan’, in South Asian Folklore. An encyclopaedia. Routledge, London 2003, 2-8.
Margaret Mills, Rhetorics and Politics in Traditional Afghan Storytelling, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1991, 95-158.
12. The Use of Persian Poetry amongst the Ismailis of Badakhshan
Alice Hunsberger, Nasir Khusraw.The Ruby of Badakhshan, I.B. Tauris and The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London / New York 2000.
Philip Kreyenbroek, ‘Folk Poetry’ in Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982-, vol. X, pp 66-71.
Mark Slobin, ‘Persian Folksong Texts from Afghan Badakhshan’, Iranian Studies, vol. 3 (1970), 91-103.
Gabrielle van den Berg, Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains, Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004.
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