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  • The Necklace of the Pleiades: 24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion
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  • Edited by Franklin D. Lewis and Sunil Sharma
  • 2010
  • Published by: Leiden University Press
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“The Necklace of the Pleiades is a volume on Persian literature, culture and Religion” by Persian scholars from around the world. The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdowsi’s Shahnama and other epics, the poetics and imagery of the ghazal and the qasida, Mughal court poetry, Sufism, Ismaili history, Baha’i literature, Iranian linguistics, the modern writer Sadeq Hedayat, and the reception of Salman Rushdie’s novel in Persian translation

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-6
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  1. Bibliography of Heshmat Moayyad’s works
  2. pp. 7-18
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  1. I. Alexander Romance
  1. On Some Sources of Nizāmī's Iskandarnāma
  2. J. Christoph Bürgel
  3. pp. 21-30
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  1. Sources and Art of Amir Khosrou’s “The Alexandrine Mirror”
  2. Angelo Michele Piemontese
  3. pp. 31-46
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  1. II. The Epic Cycle
  1. Rostam and Zoroastrianism
  2. Dick Davis
  3. pp. 49-62
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  1. Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh
  2. Amin Banani
  3. pp. 63-68
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  1. Shīrīn and Other Female Archetypes in Firdausī’s Shāhnāmah
  2. Kinga Ilona Markus-Takeshita
  3. pp. 69-76
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  1. Editing the Shāhnāmah: The Interface between Literary and Textual Criticism
  2. Mahmoud Omidsalar
  3. pp. 77-104
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  1. III. Religious Texts and Contexts
  1. The Creative Compiler: The Art of Rewriting in ‘Aṭṭāar’s Taẕkirat al-awlīyā’
  2. Paul E. Losensky
  3. pp. 107-120
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  1. Shahriyār b. al-Ḥasan: A Persian Ismā‘īlī dā‘ī of the Fatimid age
  2. Wilferd Madelung
  3. pp. 121-130
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  1. “In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned ‘Ulamā”: A Mysterious Poem by Qājār Court Poet Mīrzā Ḥabīb Allāh Shīrāzī “Qā’ānī”
  2. Alyssa Gabbay
  3. pp. 131-148
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  1. IV. The Poetic Text and Central Motifs
  1. A Life in Poetry: Hāfiz’s First Ghazal
  2. Julie Scott Meisami
  3. pp. 163-182
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  1. My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry
  2. A.A. Seyed-Gohrab
  3. pp. 183-206
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  1. V. Center and Periphery
  1. Sincerely Flattering Panegyrics: The Shrinking Ghaznavid Qasida
  2. Franklin Lewis
  3. pp. 209-250
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  1. Novelty, Tradition and Mughal Politics in Nau‘ī’s Sūz u Gudāz
  2. Sunil Sharma
  3. pp. 251-266
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  1. Situating the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic Continuum
  2. Youli Ioanessyan
  3. pp. 267-278
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  1. IV. The Modern Period
  1. The Political Realm’s Literary Convention: The Examples of ‘Ishqī and Iqbāl
  2. Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti
  3. pp. 281-294
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  1. Re-membering Amrads and Amradnumās: Re-inventing the (Sedgwickian) Wheel
  2. Afsaneh Najmabadi
  3. pp. 295-308
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  1. The Title of Hedāyat’s Buf-e Kur [(The) Blind Owl)]
  2. Michael Craig Hillmann
  3. pp. 309-324
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  1. Sâdeq Hedâyat, a Writer ahead of Time
  2. Claus V. Pedersen
  3. pp. 325-336
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  1. A Fenceless Garden
  2. Sholeh A. Quinn
  3. pp. 337-362
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  1. Refuting Rushdie in Persian
  2. Paul Sprachman
  3. pp. 363-372
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  1. From Dawn’s Art
  2. Michael Bylebyl
  3. pp. 373-380
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  1. Backlist Iranian Studies Series
  2. pp. 381-382
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