Borders
Itineraries on the Edges of Iran
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abstract
This collection of essays stands as the first volume of the new Eurasiatica series entirely devoted to the vast territories of Iranian culture, understood in the widest sense possible and in an open chronological perspective. Explicitly refusing any fetishization of particularism, it contains fourteen studies organized in thematic pairs: a sequence of interrelated itineraries exploring several heterogeneous borderlands – from Avestan philology to film studies – starting from plural, competing and coexisting ideas of Iran.
Sasanians • Photography • Iranian calendar • Shi’a • Kalasha • Phoenix • Pre-Islamic • Sino-Sogdian art • Avestan • Talesh • Religious identity • Landscape • Vedic • Nuristan • Lucknow • Other • Indo-Persian poetry • Loanwords • Philosophy and Film • Defensive moat • Bidel • Bahmanī • Interfaith • Iranshahr • Barrier • Iranian Dialectology • Simurgh • Iran • Indus • Gilan • Diaspora • Indo-Iranian • Hindu Kush • Kafiristan • Frontier • Ziyarids • Gonbad-e Kāvus • Masnavi • Kashmir • Qābūs ibn Wušmgīr • Sayyids • Northern Iran • Shī‘a • Ni’matullāhiyya • Mockery • Iranian Studies • Abbas Kiarostami • Fenghuang • Grammaticalization • Arabic Dialectology • Qatīl • Funerary architecture • Mirrors in Movies • Mughals • Conversion • Iranian Cinema • Indo-Persian • Keywords? • Persian language • Deccan