The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran's National History: On the Margins of Historiography by Saghi Gazerani

The Sistani Cycle of Epics and Iran's National History: On the Margins of Historiography

Studies in Persian Cultural History

Saghi Gazerani

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This work examines the entire corpus of the Sistani Cycle of Epics, both parts included in Ferdowsi's Shāhnāmeh and those appearing in separate manuscripts. It argues that the so-called "epic literature" of Iran constitutes a kind of historiograph...

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