Orality and textuality in the Iranian world : patterns of interaction across the centuries /

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 Mesopota...

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Other Authors: Rubanovich, Julia.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 19.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Call Number: PK6099 .O74 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: New Perspectives on Orality in Iranian Studies /
  • Julia Rubanovich
  • 1 Memory and Textuality in the Orality-Literacy Continuum /
  • Karl Reichl
  • 2 Orality and Esotericism /
  • Shaul Shaked
  • 3 Irano-Talmudica iii /
  • Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira
  • 4 The Islamic Ascension Narrative in the Context of Conversion in Medieval Iran /
  • Maria E. Subtelny
  • 5 The Motif of the Cave and the Funerary Narratives of Nāṣir-i Khusrau /
  • Jo-Ann Gross
  • 6 ʻThe Ground Well Trodden But the Shah Not Found . . .ʼ /
  • Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
  • 7 ʻThe Book of the Black Demon,ʼ or Shabrang-nāma, and the Black Demon in Oral Tradition /
  • Gabrielle R. van den Berg
  • 8 Why So Many Stories? Untangling the Versions of Iskandar's Birth and Upbringing /
  • Julia Rubanovich
  • 9 Some Comments on the Probable Sources of Ibn Ḥusām's Khāvarānnāma and the Oral Transmission of Epic Materials /
  • Raya Shani
  • 10 Professional Storytelling (naqqālī) in Qājār Iran /
  • Ulrich Marzolph
  • 11 The Literary Use of Proverbs and Myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau's Dīvān /
  • Mohsen Zakeri
  • 12 Classical Poetry as Cultural Capital in the Proverbs of Jews from Iran /
  • Galit Hasan-Rokem
  • 13 Gashtak: Oral/Literary Intertextuality, Performance and Identity in Contemporary Tajikistan /
  • Margaret Mills and Ravshan Rahmoni
  • 14 The Tale of ʻThe Old Woman on the Mountainʼ /
  • Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur
  • 15 Aramaic Incantation Texts between Orality and Textuality /
  • Charles G. Häberl
  • 16 Between Demons and Kings /
  • Naama Vilozny
  • 17 Between Written Texts, Oral Performances and Mural Paintings /
  • Frantz Grenet
  • Index.