with the publication of djalal khaleghi motlagh’s critical edition, the need for editorial work on the entire shāh-nāma has disappeared. instead, researchers are now called upon to establish critical readings of the text through careful research and consideration of the textual variants given in khaleghi motlagh’s edition, facsimiles of shāh-nāma manuscripts, insights of other shāh-nāma scholar...

Šāh-nāma of Firdowsī and the naqqāli tradition are two distinctive traditions Iran. Šāh-nāma, an epic that tells story pre-Islamic Iran, focuses on a heroic narrative. The naqqāli’s feature, against background other oral traditions, is combination religious narrative in order to spread Shiism way interesting audience. Ferdowsī's work represent periods Iran’s history its culture. These separated...

versified historiography as a style of historiographycame into being in 6th/12th century iran through imitating ferdowsi’sshāhnāma and reached its height in mongol era. consequently, in less than a century, more than ten versified histories were composed including one of the most famous one, ẓafar-nāma ofḥamd-allāhmostawfi. but it was zojājitabrizi who composed the first versified history, homā...

This study explains how Indian Buddhists accepted the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras such as Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā on basis of understandings shown in commentaries. article especially deals with “the proof authenticity Mahāyāna teachings” referred to Bhagavaty-āmnāyānusāriṇī-nāma-vyākhyā, which was written a commentary during Pāla period 12th century.

one of the central issues in shāh-nāma studies concerns the question of “essence” and “art.” in the shāh-nāma’s perspective, the demiurge has created the microcosm (humankind) and the macrocosm (the universe), each with a particular essence. both cannot but submit to the command of their essences. however, the creator has bestowed his discernment on the human world. for this reason, the human b...