Poetic nation : Iranian soul and historical continuity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation reviews the presence and participation of Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez Shirazi, the fourteenth century Iranian poet, in the life of a nation who considers him to be the core of her constitution. It looks at self-understandings in the twentieth-century Iran that imagine the Iranian soul traversing through history with unique associations with poetic and mystical traditions, epitomized in the figure of Hafez and unfolded in new understandings of the category of ʻerfan or Iranian Mysticism. The intellectual debates around the topic are saturated with immense political overtones and this study looks at a range of them from Pure Aryanism to Islamism to Communism in the works of And al-Hosay Hazhir, Ahmad Kasravi, and Ayatollah Morteza Motahari on the one hand, and the poetry of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and H. E. Sameh on the other.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Najafian, Ahoo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bashir, Shahzad, 1968- |
| Degree supervisor | Yearley, Lee H |
| Thesis advisor | Bashir, Shahzad, 1968- |
| Thesis advisor | Yearley, Lee H |
| Thesis advisor | Kumar, Aishwary |
| Degree committee member | Kumar, Aishwary |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ahoo Najafian. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Religious Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Ahoo Najafian
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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