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Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction to Special Issue of Edited Journal - Transmutations: Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality Practices in South and Inner Asia Wild and diverse outcomes are associated with transmutational practices: the prolongation of life, the ...
Barois, Christèle +2 more
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Introduction: Creating new worlds out of old texts [PDF]
, 2015 Despite initial expectations that globalization would eradicate the need for geographical space and distance, "maps matter" today in ways that were unimaginable a mere two decades ago.
Barker, Elton +2 more
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Tyre, a Ship: The Metaphorical World of Ezekiel 27 in Ancient Judah [PDF]
, 2013 This essay offers a close reading of the dirge in Ezek 27, the metaphorical description of the famed and sinking Tyrian ship. The analysis pays close attention to the symbolic world of the text, situating it within the literary and historical milieux of ...
Ian Wilson
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2008 This little book is a beguiling collection of Persian love poems drawn from both classical and modern poetry, but united by the theme of love in its myriad interpretations.
David Armani, Louise Gormley
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Review of Visual Boutiques of Espacementalism in Indian Style: The Case of Bidel Dehlavi\'s Poems [PDF]
فصلنامه نقد ادبی, 2023 One of the main propositions in understanding Espacementalism is that this literary trend does not claim to be new in its visual boutiques. In the Espacementalism manifesto, the existence of similar cases in classical Persian poetry is clearly ...
AliReza Rayat-e Hasanabadi
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The Ancient Origin of the East/West Controversy [PDF]
, 2007 This short account tries to show that the stereotype of the barbarians and an anti-Eastern discourse was developed in the literate culture of the Greeks in classical times, based on a genuine fear of the Persians, but also on an increasing smugness.
Jon Wikene Iddeng
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
, 2016 (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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A comparative analysis of impoliteness strategies in the Satire of Obeyd Zakani and Dehkhoda [PDF]
زبان پژوهیIn Persian literature, Satire functions as a significant literary device for social and political criticism, revealing cultural and systemic flaws through the use of verbal Impoliteness.
Hossein Razavian +2 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF HAFIZ ON WESTERN POETRY [PDF]
, 2008 This article examines the influence of the Persian mystic poet Hafi z on western poets. Interest in Hafiz started in England in the eighteenth century with the translations of Sir William Jones. In the nineteenth century, the German translation
Salami, Ali
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A Comparative Study of Kurdish and Persian Literature on Grounds of Prosody and Meter
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015 In terms of scope and diversity of topic as well as historical antiquity, literature of the Middle East is outstanding among world literatures, and Persian literature, in particular, has acquired a special reputation in this regard.
Seyed As’ad Sheikh Ahmadi
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