The Sistani cycle of epics and Iran's national history : : on the margins of historiography / / by Saghi Gazerani.

This work examines the entire corpus of the Sistani Cycle of Epics , both parts included in Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāmeh and those appearing in separate manuscripts. It argues that the so-called “epic literature” of Iran constitutes a kind of historiography, encapsulating reflections of watershed events of...

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Superior document:Studies in Persian Cultural History, Volume 7
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Studies in Persian cultural history ; Volume 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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