Wali Ahmadi
Wali Ahmadi is Associate Professor of Persian Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches classical and modern Persian literature and cultural studies. He is the author of Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous Visions of History and Form (2008). He founded and edited Naqd va Arman / Critique &Vision: An Afghan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (1995-2003).
Preface
Chapter 1,
A Friend’s Tribute to Amin Banani
Firuz Kazemzadeh
Chapter 2.
On the Coming of a Zoroastrian Messiah:
A Middle Persian Poem on History and Apocalypticism in Early Medieval Islamic Iran
Touraj Daryaee
Chapter 3.
A Primary Armenian Source on Land Tenure in the Khanate of Iravan (Erevan)
from the 16th to the 18th Centuries
George Bournoutian
Chapter 4.
Cycle of Neglect: Filial Relationships and Preparation for Kingship
The Case of Mozaffar al-Din Mirza
Latifeh E. Hagigi
Chapter 5.
The Reform of Iranian Nomenclature and Titulature in the Fifth Majles
H.E. Chehabi
Chapter 6.
Impact of the Constitutional Revolution on the Development of a Modern State in Iran
Omid Uskowi and A. Reza Sheikholeslami
Chapter 7.
Suhravardi’s “The Sound of Gabriel’s Wings” and its Relation to Avicennan Cosmology
Herbert A. Davidson
Chapter 8.
Nur al-Fu’ad, A Persian Treatise in Illuminationist Philosophy
& a Persian Handbook on Ophthalmology
Hossein Ziai
Chapter 9.
A Perfect Tragedy
Ehsan Yarshater
Chapter 10.
On Teaching Attar’s Conference of the Birds to Anglophone Readers
Dick Davis
Chapter 11.
“Tale of the Righteous Woman (Whose Husband had Gone on a Journey)”
A Poetic Translation from the Elahi-nameh of Farid al-Din Attar
Franklin D. Lewis
Chapter 12.
Love, Separation, and Reunion: The Master-Narrative of the Human Condition in Persian Mystical Poetry
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Chapter 13.
Iqbal and the Predicaments of Identity Formation
Wali Ahmadi
Chapter 14.
The Visual Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad in The House Is Black
Farzaneh Milani
Chapter 15.
Le projet d’une civilisation mondiale dans les Ecrits de Baha’ullah
Shapour Rassekh
Contributors