La fuite du temps dans la poésie médiévale persane. Étude sur Hâfez de Chirâz
The time which leads to death is a powerful enemy but wicked and invisible. Man makes it visible in his myths by presenting it as a monster or Cronos. Time therefore occupies an important place in the world literature.
Leila Ghalehtaki
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A Critical Review on the Book Xenophon’s Socratic Discourse [PDF]
Leo Straus with his writing on Xenophon revives this classical writer’s fame and station, as a Socratic writer, in relation to Plato. According to Straus, we must see Xenophon as more important than Plato as a source for learning about historical ...
Hassan Fathi
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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]
Altgriechische Quellen sind voll von Verweisen auf die Musik von Völkern, die nicht griechisch sind und deshalb stereotyp als ,Barbaren‘ bezeichnet werden.
Rocconi, Eleonora
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Investigating the Adaptive Animation Potentialities of the “Indian Sarpatak” Story in Attar’s Elahi Name [PDF]
Animation is one of the most popular cinematic genres for people of different age, intellectual and cultural levels. Adaptation of literary texts is, also, one of the flourishing areas for making these works, which in line with its global flow, in Iran ...
Tayebeh Partovirad, Alireza Pourshabanan
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GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]
Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
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The literary expression of Persian sufism
It is in itself impossible to separate Persian mysticism from Islamic mysticism in general. When talking about the literary expression of Persian Sufism, the author restricts himself to works written in New Persian language, i.e.
Bo Utas
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The Role of Codes of Mysticism and Sufism in Poetic Imageries and Themes of Seyyed Hassan Hosseini [PDF]
Mysticism, Sufism, terminologies, and codes related to them have always been present in classical Persian poetry and have been deployed by numerous poets. However, this connection has become quite limited in contemporary poetry.
Mohiaddin Amjadi, AliReza Mozaffari
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On the centenary of Tavrichesky University: the birth of Iranian higher education in Crimea
This article discusses the history of the formation and development of teaching Persian language and literature in the Crimea in the first half of the twentieth century, points to the transition from episodic teaching of the Persian language ...
A.N. Sukhorukov
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Change and creativity in early modern Indian medical thought [PDF]
This paper begins with a frame story, the reports on Indian medicine recorded in the 17th century travelogue of the British traveller John Fryer. Fryer’s observations as an outsider are contrasted with an internal view of the works of three quite ...
Wujastyk, D.
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Dēnkard III language variation and the defence of socio-religious identity in the context of Early-Islamic Iran [PDF]
The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili, Gianfilippo
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