Studies on the Iranian World: Medieval and Modern-中国社会科学院西亚非洲研究所

Today, the Iranian world, which encompasses the whole Persian-speaking and culturally "Persianate" region, including Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Tajikistan, parts of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, is a geopolitically sensitive region. But it is also a distinct cultural area with a rich and complex history, a mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, ancient languages and dialects, and sophisticated literatures. The essays in this volume address a broad range of questions from a variety of fields, including languages, literature, religions, history, anthropology, demography, sociology, medicine, art, and film. The second volume covers events occurring in the medieval and modern Iranian world.

CONTENTS

9 Anna Krasnowolska, Renata Rusek-Kowalska

Foreword

Linguistics

13 Chiara Barbati

The Northern-Central Group of the Iranian Central Dialects:an Areal and Diachronic Perspective

23 Tomasz Gacek

Some Comments on a Parallel Text in Dari,Tojiki and Farsi

35 Olena Mazepova

Verbalization of the Universal Human Concept of the Soul in Persian

45 Andrzei Pisowicz

The Problem of Subject Clauses versus Complement Clauses in Persian

Literature

59 Aftandil Erkinov

Timurid Authority and the Ottoman Sultan: Some Notes on Three Jami Manuscripts from the Library of Bayezid II (886-918/1481-1512)

73 Claus V. Pedersen

The Historical Novel in Early Modern Persian Literature

81 Renata Rusek-Kowalska

Siba-Zeynab-Ziba: the Metamorphoses of an Iranian Woman

99 Pegah Shahbaz

Laughing at Adultery in Persian Literature and Culture

107 Madeleine Voegeli

Quiet Lives and Looming Horrors - Subversive Narrative Strategies in the Earliest Short Stories of Zoya Pirzad

Religion

107 Victoria Arakelova

Shibboleths of Heresies: on Some Essential Markers of the Near Eastern Non-Dogmatic Milieu

129 Anna Cieslewska

Female Religious Practitioners in the Context of Contemporary Transformations of Islam in Tajikistan

149 Paulina Niechciat

The Key Content of Contemporary Zoroastrian Identity in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a Socio-Anthropological Approach

History

159 Behrouz Alikhani

The Failure of the Constitutional Monarchy in Iran:The Socio- and Psycho-Genesis of Reza Khan's Rise to Power

175 Helen Giunashvili and Tamar Abuladze

Concerning One Unpublished Persian Historical Document from Afshar Period

187 Florence Hodous

Clash or Compromise? Mongol and Muslim Law in the Ilkhanate (1258-1335)

197 Ryoko Watabe

New Insights on the Fiscal System of the Early Ilkhanids through the Analysis of al-Murshid ft al-Hisab, an Unknown Accounting Manual

205 Ali Shojaee Esfahani

Archaeological Survey of Kamar-e Mari Castle in Kerman Province

219 Sibylle Wentker

Historians of their Time: Mongols, Mamluks and the Treatment of the Past

Arts

231 Michael Chagnon

The Reception and Illustration of Hafiz in Mid-Seventeeth-Century Iran

243 Peyvand Firouzeh

Al-Muqaddasi's Ahsan al-Taqasim fi Ma'rifat al-Aqalim and the Perception of the Built Environment in the Tenth Century

257 Irene Natchkebia

Ouelques reflexions autour d'un dessin de Michel Francois PrEaux - peintre de la mission du genral Gardane en Perse (1807-1809)

269 Marzieh Rouhani

Le cinema de Kiarostami en prise sur le cinema de Rossellini et Godard : rencontre, echange, superposition

277 Elzbieta Wiacek

Where is Anna? What Happened to Elly? - Asghar Farhadi Rewrites and Re-Veils Michaelangelo Antonioni

Social and Cultural Studies

291 Paolo Delaini

Amulets and Medical Cures in the Yaghnob Valley: an Overview of Yaghnobi Traditional Medicine between Magic and Healing Folklore

305 Bert G.Fragner

Persian Cookbooks, the ‘Myth’ of National Cuisine and the Process of Modernisation

319 Erika Friedl

Modernity and Fertility Decline in Iran

329 Afsaneh Gachter

Medicine and Anthropology: the ’Ambassador-Physician’ Jacob Eduard Polak (1818-1891) as a Mediator of Modernity in Iran

341 Philippe Gignoux

Anatomy and Therapy of Eye-Diseases in Esma'l Gorgani Compared to Syriac Sources

347 Szczepan Lemanczyk

The Trans-Iranian Railway - History and Socio-Political Implications

357 Agnes G.Loeffler

Traditional Diet and Allopathic Medicine in Diagnosis and Treatment in Iran

367 Yuko Suzuki

Between Tradition and Modernity: DoSmanziyari Khans' Adaptations to Social Change