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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | Persian and Islamic studies in honour of P.W. Avery / edited by Charles Melville. |
| Added Author: | Melville, C.P. (Charles Peter), |
| Publisher: | [Cambridge] : University of Cambridge, Centre of middle eastern studies, 1990. |
| Pages: | iii, 254 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0951644300 |
| Notes: | (c) The University of Cambridge, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies.Collection of studies on predominantly Persian topics; contains 1 article about the Maqama and 1 article about Arabic ghazals. |
| Contents: | A note on Persian prosody / Hubert Darke -- Hawk and dove in Sufi combat / SImon Digby -- Some general accounts of the Safavid and Afsharid period, primarily in English / John Emerson -- Rewriting the social history of late Qajar Iran / John Gurney -- The deportation of the Armenians in 1604-1605 and Europe's myth of Shah 'Abbas I / Edmund Herzig -- The execution of Amir Hasanak the vazir: some lessons for the historical sociology of Iran / Homa Katouzian -- The Barmakid revolution in Islamic government / Hugh Kennedy -- The end of Czarist Rule in Iran / Paul Luft -- A note on the Maqama form / M.C. Lyons -- Some notes on premodern Islamic social description / Louise Marlow -- Sa'di's Arabic ghazals/ John Mattock -- Allusion in Hafiz: Joseph and his Brothers / Julie Scott Meisami -- Padshah-i-Islam: the conversion of Sultan Mahmud Ghazan Khan / Charles Melville -- The date and attribution of the Ross Anonymous. Notes on a Persian history of Shah Isma'il I / A.H. Morton -- Mirza, Mashti and Juja Kabab: some ca |
| Descriptors: | Poetry, Ancient Ghazal Maqama Persian literature |
| Series: | 1 |
| Location: | OIL BP15 AVE |
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