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The Ant's Gift

A Study of the Shahnameh

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

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The Ant's Gift

A Study of the Shahnameh

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran’s leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. In The Ant’s Gift, Meskoob applies his insight and considerable analytical skills to the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran completed in 1010 by the poet Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi. Tracing Iran’s history from its first mythical king to the fall of the Sasanian dynasty, the Shahnameh includes myths, romance, history, and political theory. Meskoob sheds new light on this seminal work of Persian culture, identifying the story as at once a historical and poetic work. While previous criticism of the Shahnameh has focused on its linguistic importance and its role in Iranian nationalism, Meskoob draws attention to the work’s pre-Islamic cultural origins.

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The Ant's Gift

A Study of the Shahnameh

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

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In the Alley of the Friend

On the Poetry of Hafez

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

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On the Poetry of Hafez

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

The celebrated and beloved fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez continues to play an essential role in the lives of Iranians today. For centuries, scholars have studied his work, exploringboth his life and his deeply moving poetry of love, spirituality, and protest. Yet, Shahrokh Meskoob is one of the first scholars to take an innovative approach to Hafez’s poetry. Meskoob goes beyond a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of Hafez’s poetry in the Divan to access the interior thoughts of the poet and summon his spirit in the process of understanding Hafez’s mysticism.

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081565460X

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9780815654605

Lament for Siavash

On Death and Resurrection

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

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Lament for Siavash

On Death and Resurrection

By: Shahrokh Meskoob

Equally literary analysis and a deep dive into the timeless ingredients of our collective humanity-love and greed, fear and malice, cowardice, loyalty, treachery, and courage-Lament for Siavash is considered Shahrokh Meskoob's best work on the eleventh-century Iranian national epic, the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. It interweaves Zoroastrian and Zurvanite mythology and religion, Arsacid heroic poetry, Sasanian history, and Islamic mysticism to relate the story of the death of prince Siavash and his resurrection as his son Kay Khosrow-the perfect man. Meskoob's concept of the hero celebrates ethical integrity, an ideal that in his telling was diminished in Sasanian society in the early Middle Ages and which, following the Arab invasion in the seventh century, devolved into a fatalistic ethos of martyrdom in Shi'ite Iran. While highlighting the supremacy of the cosmic order over humanity, the commentary underscores every individual's freedom to willfully act on their own conscience and self-purpose, thus offering the reader a heroic definition of the meaning of life. Read Lament if you wish to wrap yourself in the most spirited values articulated in Iranian civilization. Mahasti Afshar's superb English translation perfectly captures the Persian original, in particular Meskoob's terse and complex prose-poetic constructs, while her textual notes provide insightful information for the general reader and the scholar alike. A foreword by Stanford Iranian Studies Director Abbas Milani confirms Meskoob's status as an Iranian scholar for our times.

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In the Alley of the Friend

On the Poetry of Hafez

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The Ant's Gift

The Ant's Gift

The Ant's Gift

The Ant's Gift

In the Alley of the Friend

In the Alley of the Friend

Lament for Siavash

Lament for Siavash

In the Alley of the Friend

In the Alley of the Friend

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