The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran's National History : On the Margins of Historiography /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Series: | Studies in Persian cultural history
v. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on transliteration
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The historical context
- 2. The appropriation of an Avestan hero and the birth of the House of Rostam
- 3. The zenith of Suren power
- 4. The downtrodden Sistani heroes
- 5. The polemics of making heroes and anti-heroes
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: The Sistani cycle of epics: stories and their manuscripts
- Appendix B: Narrations of Bahman's reign
- Figures
- Bibliography
- Index.