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Old Age and Greed in Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī’s Ghazals
Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī is one of the most well-known figures of 17th century Persian poetry. His poems are considered typical examples of Indian Style, a poetry movement that was marked with the use of imagery that deviated from established norms of the past ...
Güneş Muhip Özyurt
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Transcendental love in contemporary Persian poetry [PDF]
Love is one of the main subjects of Persian poetry and the highest and most important foundation of mysticism, and although the form of dealing with love in different periods of Persian poetry has been different according to specific social conditions ...
منوچهر جوکار +1 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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The symbol of nightingales and Persian rose in poem of Naim Frashëri
Persian and Albanian poetry both hold deep cultural, historical, and literary importance in their respective regions—and beyond. While distinct in their linguistic and thematic traditions, both poetic traditions serve as crucial vehicles for expressing ...
Blerina Harizaj
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Basic features of Persian poetry styles [PDF]
In various sources of Persian poetry stylistics, the stylistic features of pre-constitutional poetry have been examined in a detailed and meticulous manner.
علیرضا مظفریان
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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The present paper deals with the historical overview and the reception of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets in contemporary Iran. The authors examine the chronology of Persian translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (both scattered and book-length ones) during
Mostafa Hosseini, Mahmood Yenkimaleki
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