Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition

This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from l...

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description This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from long narrative poems, historical chronicles, and reports by geographers and travelers, is the issue of a conflation between the legendary character of the Master of Mount Bīsutūn and a historical personage, Farrahān, the general-in-chief of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz’s army (r. 590-628 EC), as this figure was re-elaborated in a number of later legends. The second essay identifies a character named ‘Būrān-dukht’ as the prototype from which Turandot, the heroine of the tale well-known in Europe from Puccini’s opera (1926), springs. Two historical personages, both called Būrān or Būrān-dukht, are relevant in this line of development: the first is the daughter of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 580-628 CE), who was queen of Persia for a short period (630-631 CE); the other is the daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, wife of Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 CE).
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1345702024-02-22T16:11:48Z Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition ORSATTI, Paola Persian narrative tradition,The Turandot tale,Origins of literary characters,Farhād,Turandot,Farrahān Shahr-barāz,Būrān-dukht,Niẓāmī This book gathers together two essays. The first deals with the origins of the character of Farhād, the unlucky lover of Shīrīn, who – in the Persian narrative tradition – digs a route through Mount Bīsutūn and accomplishes other admirable works. The essay suggests that Farhād, as we know him from long narrative poems, historical chronicles, and reports by geographers and travelers, is the issue of a conflation between the legendary character of the Master of Mount Bīsutūn and a historical personage, Farrahān, the general-in-chief of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz’s army (r. 590-628 EC), as this figure was re-elaborated in a number of later legends. The second essay identifies a character named ‘Būrān-dukht’ as the prototype from which Turandot, the heroine of the tale well-known in Europe from Puccini’s opera (1926), springs. Two historical personages, both called Būrān or Būrān-dukht, are relevant in this line of development: the first is the daughter of the Sasanid king Khusraw II Parvīz (r. 580-628 CE), who was queen of Persia for a short period (630-631 CE); the other is the daughter of Ḥasan b. Sahl, wife of Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813-833 CE). 2024-02-22T16:11:41Z 2024-02-22T16:11:41Z 2019 book ONIX_20240222_9788869693540_170 2610-9441 9788869693540 9788869693557 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134570 eng Filologie medievali e moderne image/png Attribution 4.0 International https://fondazionecafoscari.storeden.com/product/22210448 https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/media/pdf/books/978-88-6969-355-7/978-88-6969-355-7_y1AALnD.pdf Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari 10.30687/978-88-6969-354-0 10.30687/978-88-6969-354-0 4213f1ed-14d0-44b5-91b3-3cc52df9b961 9788869693540 9788869693557 5 116 open access
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Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition
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