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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 Reaction of Surprise “angosht be dahān/dandān gereftan” in Persian Poetry and Miniature [PDF]
Humans show different emotions in reaction to various phenomena around them. One of these emotions is surprise that is expressed in reaction to impressive events. A surprised individual shows reactions that have physiological and cultural roots.
Ahmad Zare Abarghouei
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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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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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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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Iqbal and Goethe : a note [PDF]
The recourse to Goethe plays an important role in the work of Mohammad Iqbal (1873-1938), one of the few important writers from the Indian subcontinent who knew German literature.
Bhatti, Anil
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
(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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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 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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Some development in Urdu poetry since 1936 [PDF]
This work is devoted to discuss the developments in Urdu poetry since 1936.A brief account of the developments in poetical language, various verse-forms and themes of Urdu poetry till Iqbal (1877-1938) has been given in the introductory chapter.
Shakir, Faqir Hussain
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