The Persian Mirror
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Author |
: Susan Mokhberi |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2019-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190884819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190884819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persian Mirror by : Susan Mokhberi
The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
Author |
: Elaine Sciolino |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0743217799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780743217798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Persian Mirrors by : Elaine Sciolino
Sciolino goes behind the headlines for an intriguing, in-depth look at Iran's complex people and culture. photos. 1 map.
Author |
: Rabe`eh Balkhi |
Publisher |
: Mage Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 2023-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781949445602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1949445607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by : Rabe`eh Balkhi
One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.
Author |
: Thomas G. Pavel |
Publisher |
: London, Ont. : Third Eye |
Total Pages |
: 105 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0919581129 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780919581128 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persian Mirror by : Thomas G. Pavel
Author |
: Blain Auer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2021-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108832311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108832318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Mirror of Persian Kings by : Blain Auer
A study of Perso-Islamic kingship in India, as a way to understanding the political and cultural history of Muslim courts in India and their legacy.
Author |
: Monir Farmanfarmaian |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2008-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307278784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307278786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Mirror Garden by : Monir Farmanfarmaian
Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing. “Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds.” —Vogue In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition.
Author |
: Susan Mokhberi |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2019-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190884802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190884800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Persian Mirror by : Susan Mokhberi
The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
Author |
: Carole Jerome |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015025189047 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man in the Mirror by : Carole Jerome
Author |
: Nasrin Askari |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2016-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004307919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004307915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Medieval Reception of the Shāhnāma as a Mirror for Princes by : Nasrin Askari
Nasrin Askari explores the medieval reception of Firdausī’s Shāhnāma, or Book of Kings (completed in 1010 CE) as a mirror for princes. Through her examination of a wide range of medieval sources, Askari demonstrates that Firdausī’s oeuvre was primarily understood as a book of wisdom and advice for kings and courtly elites. In order to illustrate the ways in which the Shāhnāma functions as a mirror for princes, Askari analyses the account about Ardashīr, the founder of the Sasanian dynasty, as an ideal king in the Shāhnāma. Within this context, she explains why the idea of the union of kingship and religion, a major topic in almost all medieval Persian mirrors for princes, has often been attributed to Ardashīr.
Author |
: Suzy Lee |
Publisher |
: Seven Footer Press |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 193473439X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781934734391 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Mirror by : Suzy Lee
A young girl dances with her reflection in a mirror in this story told without words.