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Informationen zum Autor H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations at Boston University. Klappentext Presents several articles and other writings of Sorour S Soroudi (1938-2002)! who taught in the Department of Iranian Studies at the Hebrew University for three decades. Zusammenfassung S. S. Soroudi’s research concentrated on modern Persian poetry, particularly of the constitutional era; Judeo-Persian literature and folk culture; and the history and culture of Iranian Jewry, which she situated in the larger context of Iranian history. This collection includes one previously unpublished piece and one newly translated into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Preface * Introduction * Akhavan's "Ending of the Shahnameh": A Critique * The Dispute of "the Old and the New" in Persian Poetry * Review Article on Az Saba ta Nima by Yahya aryanpur * Myth and Legend as a Key to Reality and Vision in the Works of Mehdi Akhavan Sales * Poet and Revolution: The Impact of Iran's Constitutional Revolution on the Social and Literary Outlook of the Poets of the Time * On the Image of Jesus in Modern Persian Poetry * The Sacred Sites of the Iranian Jews Translated from Hebrew by Raya Shani and Ruth Stronach * Islamization of the Iranian National Hero Rostam as Reflected in Persian Folktales * The Iranian Heritage in the Eyes of the Poet Mehdi Akhavan Sales * Jews in Islamic Iran * Shira-ye Hatani: A Judeo-Persian Wedding Song * Sur-e Esrafil! 1907-1908: Social and Political Ideology * Folk Poetry and Society in Nineteenth-Century Iran * Judeo-Persian Religious Oath Formulas as Compared with Non-Jewish Iranian Traditions * The Concept of Jewish Impurity and its Reflection in Persian and Judeo-Persian Traditions * Mirza aqa Khan Kermani and the Jewish Question * The Sofreh of Elijah the Prophet: A Pre-Islamic Iranian Ritual? * Iranian Intellectuals' Attitudes towards Jews and Judaism Completed by Jaleh Pirnazar * Bibliography of Sorour S. Soroudi's works ...
