Shahnama studies II : : the reception of Firdausi's Shahnama / / edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg.

• TeilnehmendeR: Melville, C. P. 1951-; Van den Berg, Gabrielle Rachel, 1967-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Multiple
• Series: Studies in Persian Cultural History 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Tracking the Shahnama Tradition in Medieval Persian Folk Prose /; Demons in the Persian Epic Cycle: The Div Shabrang in the Leiden Shabrangnama and in Shahnama Manuscripts /; Faramarz’s Expedition to Qannuj and Khargah: Mutual Influences of the Shahnama and the Longer Faramarznama /; The Influence of the Shahnama in the Extended Version of Arday Virafnama by Zartusht Bahram /; Picturing Evil: Images of Divs and the Reception of the Shahnama /; The Reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama Among the Ottomans /; The Illustration of the Shahnama and the Art of the Book in Ottoman Turkey /; The Shahnama of Firdausi in the Lands of Rum /; Bahram’s Feat of Hunting Dexterity as Illustrated in Firdausi’s Shahnama, Nizami’s Haft Paikar and Amir Khusrau’s Hasht Bihisht /; The Samarqand Shahnamas in the Context of Dynastic Change /; Mapping Illustrated Folios of Shahnama Manuscripts: The Concept and Its Uses /; Shahnama Kings and Heroes in ‘Aja’ib al-Makhluqat Illustrated Manuscripts /; Sistani Legends about Rustam and his Descendants /; The Oral Variant of the Story of Barzu Amongst the Tajiks of Boysun /; The Shahnama Oral Tradition in Contemporary Iran: The Cases of Firuzkuh and Khurasan /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128355092X; 9786613863379; 9004228632
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Charles Melville, Gabrielle van den Berg.

This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands. Later poets and writers not only looked to Firdausi’s work for a model, but supplemented its stories with other narratives or absorbed the characters and the moral values of the poem into their own works. Several chapters focus on the literary traditions fed by the Shahnama , including reports of the continuing oral performances of its more popular stories. Others discuss Firdausi’s impact on the creative imagination of the miniature painters who illustrated manuscript copies of the Shahnama in the courts of the Ottoman Empire, Moghul India, and the Central Asia Khanates up till the seventeenth century. Contributors include Gabrielle van den Berg, Francesca Leoni, Farhad Mehran, Bilha Moor, Adeela Qureshi, Ravshan Rahmoni, Julia Rubanovich, Karin Ruehrdanz, Jan Schmidt, Ivan Steblin-Kamenski, Zeren Tanindi, Lâle Uluç, Evangelos Venetis, Olga Yastrebova, and Marjolijn van Zutphen.