Dedication

pp v-vi

Table of Contents

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-6

Bibliography of Heshmat Moayyad’s works

pp 7-18

I - Alexander Romance

pp 19-20

On Some Sources of Nizāmī’s Iskandar-nāma

pp 21-30

Sources and Art of Amir Khosrou’s “The Alexandrine Mirror”

pp 31-46

II - The Epic Cycle

pp 47-48

Rostam and Zoroastrianism

pp 49-62

Reflections on Re-reading the Iliad and the Shahnameh

pp 63-68

Shīrīn and Other Female Archetypes in Firdausī’s Shāhnāmah

pp 69-76

Editing the Shāhnāma: The Interface Between Literary and Textual Criticism

pp 77-94

Kuš-e pilguš: pahlavāni degarsān

pp 95-104

III - Religious Texts and Contexts

pp 105-106

The Creative Compiler: The Art of Rewriting in ‘Aṭṭār’s Taẕkirat al-awlīyā’

pp 107-120

Shahriyār b. al-Ḥasan: A Persian Ismā‘īlī dā‘ī of the Fatimid Age

pp 121-130

“In Praise of One of the Deeply Learned ‘Ulamā”: A Mysterious Poem by Qājār Court Poet Mīrzā Ḥabīb Allāh Shīrāzī “Qā’ānī”

pp 131-148

IV - The Poetic Text and Central Motifs

pp 149-150

Nosxa’i kohna az Divān-e Emāmi-ye Haravi

pp 151-162

A Life in Poetry: Hāfiz’s First Ghazal

pp 163-182

“My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick”: Development of the Ball and Polo-stick Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry

pp 183-206

V - Center and Periphery

pp 207-208

Sincerely Flattering Panegyrics: The Shrinking Ghaznavid Qasida

pp 209-250

Novelty, Tradition and Mughal Politics in Nau‘ī’s Sūz u Gudāz

pp 251-266

The Position of the Khorasani Dialects within the Persian-Dari-Tajiki Linguistic Continuum

pp 267-278

VI - The Modern Period

pp 279-280

The Political Realm’s Literary Convention: The Examples of ‘Ishqī and Iqbāl

pp 281-294

Re-membering Amrads and Amradnumās: Re-inventing the (Sedgwickian) Wheel

pp 295-308

The Title of Hedâyat’s Buf-e Kur [(The) Blind Owl)]

pp 309-324