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Showing 26 results for Shahname
Arman Fateh Dowlatabadi, Qolam-Ali Fallah, Hamid Abdollahian,
Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
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Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh is full of stories which are rooted in myths. The characters of stories can be analyzed from different viewpoints. Keykhosrow is one of the eminent characters of myths. In this paper, relying on desk study, document and content analysis, and the adoption of Marcel Mauss’ anthropological approach and Eliade’s theory about magic doctors we have analyzed Keykhosrow and his magical actions. The findings of this paper show that the Iranian-Turanian Keykhosrow is a potential witch. He also has characteristics and actions which can be found in witches. Keykhosrow, like a king-priest who dominated Classical Elements and adept in witchcraft, conquers Afrasiab with unusual magical tricks and ends the Great War.
Mojtaba Doroudi, Hamid Fadayi,
Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
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The present article is an analysis of a couplet from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, about which scholars have expressed various opinions so far. This couplet, which was also recorded by Saadi in Bustan, begins with the hemistich “mayazar muri ke danekesh ast” (Don’t harm an ant that is seed-carrying). Later, according to the recorded form of this couplet in the Florence version and two other versions containing the hemistich “makosh muraki ra ke ruzikesh ast” (Don’t kill a small ant that is daily-bread-carrying), Khaleghi Motlagh based his revised version of Shahnameh and stated that it was the closest version to the original Shahnameh. The researchers have since expressed their opinions on rejection or acceptance of this revision. While investigating other views, this study focused on Avestan and Middle Persian texts and considered the frequency of some words of this hemistich and concluded that the phrase “mure danekesh” (seed-carrying ant) is an ancient and descriptive compound that has its roots in Old and Middle Persian texts and its domain is extended into New Persian. The two other phrases “makosh” (Don’t kill) compared with “mayazar” (Don’t harm) and “muri” (an ant) compared with “muraki” (a small ant) have superiority, which correspond with one another in each hemistich. However, the phrase “mayazar” can be regarded as one of Ferdowsi’s poetic innovations.
Ashraf Seraj,
Volume 30, Issue 92 (5-2022)
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Dād (justice) is one of the abstract concepts that is not tangible in the world outside the mind and thinkers have dealt with it from various perspectives throughout history. Ferdowsi paid special attention to justice and mentioned it as one of the most important and required attributes of the kings. From the perspective of cognitive linguists, the human mind, using the metaphor mechanism, understands the abstract concepts through objective concepts. For an abstract concept, several different source domains may be used. Physical experiences, physical environment, social and cultural environment, and personal and social background are among the factors involved in the diversity of metaphors. The current research is an attempt to investigate Ferdowsi’s views about justice by studying conceptual metaphors used in six stories of Shahnameh and to identify the factors influencing the diversity of the source domains by analyzing the relationship between metaphor and types of context. The results of the research indicate that, in Shahnameh, justice, depicted as a priceless object and everlasting wealth, is spread by the king among the people and in the world. Justice leads the kingdom and state towards order and development, and it is a guardian that keeps the realm of government safe, and like water, the progress and renewal of the world and the happiness of the people depends on it.
Asad Abshirini, Qodratullah Zarouni, Reza Barati,
Volume 31, Issue 95 (11-2023)
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Akhar-e Shahnameh (The Ending of Shahnameh) is one of the brilliant poems of Mehdi Akhavan Sales, which took on a form of despair and anxiety under the influence of the coup on 19 August 1953. Many personal and social conditions and factors influenced the formation of these two emotional categories, but in Akhavan’s poem, perhaps more influential than the death of relatives was the failure of the national movement due to the events related to oil, which revealed feelings of despair and anxiety in the mind and soul of the failed contemporary poet. Akhar-e Shahnameh has the potential to be studied with new literary approaches and especially with structuralist criticism due to its narrative aspect, old Khorasani dialect, syntactic anomaly, and coherent structure. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between and the structure of despairing and anxiety-provoking images and their contrast with happy and hopeful images in Akhar-e Shahnameh; because examining the image structure in this poem helps us understand the difficulties of Akhavan's poetry. This research uses an analytical-critical method. Adopting the approach of structuralist criticism, an attempt has been made to examine the anxiety-provoking and despairing images of this poem in two horizontal and vertical axes so as to explore the grounds for its glory and coherence by means of literary criticism. The findings of this research show that in this poem, Akhavan employs more than sixty-five despairing and anxiety-provoking images using imagery tools such as irony, metaphor, simile, symbol, paradox, etc., in the two axes of coexistence and substitution to draw the atmosphere of the 1950s, which was full of despair and anxiety.
Hasan Shahryari, Kianoosh Beiranvand,
Volume 33, Issue 98 (5-2025)
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Epic stories and ideas have capacities, some of which feed revolutionary and liberating resistance movements, and others serve anti-human and dictatorial regimes and various forms of fundamentalism. This epic capacity of Iran has caused them to appear in the form of epic poems, sometimes in the pages of historical works, and sometimes in the form of novels and historical stories, depending on the needs of each period, and to fulfill their function. Historical novels, as one of the newly emerging literary genres in the Qajar period, have a deep connection with epic narratives and ideas that writers have used with various goals and methods; therefore, conducting research with the aim of examining the goals of the writers, the manner of their application, and even the developments that led to epics and epic ideas in these works is essential for literary researchers. Therefore, in the present study, using library resources and descriptive, analytical and comparative methods, the following results were obtained: 1. In the historical novels of the first period (1284-1300), considering the danger of the destruction of Iranian identity against foreigners, the authors sought to promote epic ideas with an educational perspective to create a spirit of resistance, unity and defense of the land; 2. In the works of the second period (1300-1320), the epic element is a tool in the service of the court and the expression of the nationalist ideas of the first Pahlavi; 3. In the third period (1320-1332), under the influence of the entry of the Allies into Iran and the instability of the court, epic ideas stagnate and stories and heroes of the Ayyar take the place of heroes and epic ideas.
Mr. Saeed Amirinia, Dr. Javad Dehghanian,
Volume 33, Issue 98 (5-2025)
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Articles related to the Shahnameh and Ferdowsi have been analyzed from their inception (1915) up to the end of 2006 across several studies. These studies have pointed to the social contexts of the quantitative growth of the articles and the reasons for the rise and fall of Shahnameh studies; however, their main focus has been on the pathology and weaknesses concerning the subjects, content, and structure of the articles. The mentioned studies have paid less attention to the degree of innovation in these researches concerning research methods, hypotheses, and new findings—which are among the most important goals of scholarly articles. The present study examines two fundamental indicators of scholarly articles from 2007 to 2011 on the subject of the Shahnameh and Ferdowsi, aiming to investigate innovation in the main structure of these articles, namely the problem statement and research method. During the last five years of the 1380s (2000s), 210 scholarly articles were produced, categorized into nine thematic groups. In this study, using qualitative content analysis, the degree of innovation and scientific trendsetting of the articles were examined based on determined indicators. Among the mentioned thematic categories, "textual studies of the Shahnameh," "comparative studies of the Shahnameh with other works," and "character studies of the Shahnameh" have higher frequencies. Compared to previous periods, content and methodological deficiencies in the articles of the second half of the 1380s have decreased, and new perspectives and approaches have emerged, making these articles, especially in the "textual studies of the Shahnameh" section, trendsetters.
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