“ibn-e hisam-khosfi” is a poet of ninth hijra century who composed “khavar-nameh” in describing imam ali (a.s) and his followers’ braveries and battles as approach and style of ferdousy’s shahname. in this rhymed piece, he did not only consider expressing the story sufficient but also made an effort to publish the religious and moral concepts and utilized a lot from quran to express these conce...

in this type of criticism, the main elements that a critic takes into consideration are rhythm and rhyme, vocabulary, syntax and word order, and forms of imagination. in the standard epic language, i.e. shahname, all these elements help the typical literary epic and recall thought epical contents, but in some epic works after ferdowsi, it is seen that the main epical elements have been separate...

with the advent of ilkhan (mongols) in iran, the art of illustrating book was officially formed and, from this period onward, this art prospered. great mongolian shahnameh, the painting masterpiece of ilkhanid era, was illustrated in tabriz as the first courtly illustrated edition during the time of abu sae'd bahadorkhan; gradually afterward, other illustrated editions of shahnaneh came in...

the focus of this article is in the area of poetry and film, dealing specifically with the visual potentials of a monumental persian classic epic, that is, firdowsi's shahnameh. in this masterpiece, the visual world is formed out of images which could represent it in many different ways, at times extremely glorified at other times immensely emotional and psychological but always absolutely...

abstract bazel mashadi′s heydary attack is one of the earliest and most famous attack epics written in the twelfth century. bazel exploits the style and format of shahname in his masnavi, composed in twenty to thirty thousand verses. the poet, after chanting the praise of god, prophet and his successor (vali), verses the history of islam beginning from the prophet’s mission (be’sat) to the orde...

studying the comparison between bahrame gour’s story in shahnameh and the ancient, historical texts in this article we studied the differences between two historical and fictional narrations of bahram e gour’s story. to obtain this aim we studied historiographer’s point of view and on the other hand the firdowsi’s narration has been represented. in order to explain the differences we defined tw...

abstract the shahnameh (the book of kings) is a long epic poem written by the iranian poet ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010. this literary masterpiece, which tells the mythical and somehow the historical past of the persian empire, was always been the center of attention of the royal courts, the governors, the cultural people, artists and especially the painters. this book is been more than any...

drawing upon some teachings of modern literary criticism and michail bakhtin’s notion of polyphony, the article tries to compare selected iranian contemporary literary and dramatic texts. polyphony, as the potential capacity of a text to produce and reproduce meaning, gives the reader the chance of analyzing the dialogical and narrative patterns of iranian novels and dramas in a new perception....

in persian literature and persian painting, versifying and illustrating khamsa were common for centuries. after ferdowsi's “shahname”, khamsa of nizami is known to be the most popular poetry book in persian literature. the khamsa (quintet) is a collection of five narrative poems called:“makhzan al-asrar”, “khusraw and shirin”, “layla and majnun”, “haft peykar” and “iskandar nama” composed ...