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Book Announcement from Mazda Publisher 120624

URL:http://mazdapublisher.com/BookDetails.aspx?BookID=306

Editors: M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Behrad Aghaei

Language & Literature

Iranian Languages and Culture

Essays in Honor of Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr

$ 45.00

2012: xii+238,6 x 9,illus.,charts,maps,notes.

ISBN:1-56859-284-1; ISBN 13: 978-1568592848(softcover).

Specifications are subject to change without notice.

Description

For more than four decades, Professor Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr has been a pillar ofIranian Studies in the United States. His extensive publications in several fields and thenumber of scholars he has trained alone attest to his highly-regarded status andcontributions to Iranian Studies. Upon his retirement in 2009 from the College ofLiterature, Science, and Arts, he was named Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies bythe Regents of the University of Michigan.

This volume is a collection of writings celebrating Professor Gernot Windfuhr's manyyears of teaching and scholarship in the field of Iranian Studies. The articles in this bookby scholars in various fields, including those by his former students, are indicative of thediversity, breadth, and depth of Professor Winfuhr's research and publication. Theessays range from studies of ancient to modern languages, literature, linguistics, andreligion, as well as translation and language pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note.

Editors' Foreword.

An Irate Goddess (CTH 710).Gary Beckman

Zoroastrians as a Socioreligious Minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.Jamsheed K. Choksy

Herodotus on Drinking Wine in the Achaemenid World: Greek and Persian Perceptions.Touraj Daryaee

The Contributions of Nasir-i Khusrau and
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Nasi al-Din Tusi to Shi'ite Theology.Iraj Bashiri

Commerce and Migration in Arabia before Islam: A Brief History of a Long LiteraryTradition.

Michael Bonner

The Aesthetics of Lone Moments in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad.by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami

Translating Taghi Modarressis Writing with an Accent.Nasrin Rahimieh

Iranian Films as Cultural Texts for Persian Language Instruction.M. R. Ghanoonparvar

Intersection Zones, Overlapping Isoglosses, and Fade-out/Fade-in Phenomena inCentral Iran.Donald L. Stilo

Case Attraction in Persian Relative Clauses.Behrad Aghaei

Iranian Languages in Linguistic Areas of Central Asia.Leila R. Dodykhudoevaand Vladimir Ivanov

Non-canonical Subjects in Balochi.Carina Jahani, Serge Axenov, Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz, and Maryam Nourzaei

About the Contributors.

Contributors

Behrad Aghaei holds a doctorate degree in Theoretical Linguistics from The Universityof Texas at Austin. At present, he is a lecturer of Persian language in the Department ofNear Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to teachingPersian language from elementary to advanced levels, he conducts research on

Persian syntax and morphology. His recent publication includes a co-authored paper,"Criteria for the Selection of Persian Texts," with Professor Gernot Windfuhr. He is alsothe co-author of Persian Listening with R. Saraf, M.C. Hillmann and A. A. Pejman

Aryan, published by Dunwoody Press in 2008.

Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz is a researcher in Iranian languages at the Department ofLinguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also a lecturer of Old andMiddle Iranian languages and culture at the Department of Archaeology, University of


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Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran. His Ph.D. thesis, which he defended at UppsalaUniversity in 2010, is a study of discourse features in Balochi oral narration. He has alsopublished a number of articles on the Balochi language and its oral literature, and triesto use an interdisciplinary approach in his linguistic, literary, and archaeological studies.The focus of his current research is documentation and analysis of Bashkardi, an

endangered Iranian language, and Brahui, a Dravidian language. He is also collectingand editing Balochi folktales from Iranian and Afghan Sistan.

Iraj Bashiri is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He received his BA inEnglish Literature from Pahalvi University in Shiraz, Iran, in 1963 and his MA degree inLinguistics (1968), and PhD in Iranian Linguistics (1972) from the University ofMichigan. Bashiri's research deals with the history, languages, literatures, and culture ofthe Iranian peoples. The major foci of his studies are Islamic intellectual history, identity,Islam, Communism, Westernization, and Sovietization. Bashiri was the IREX ResidentScholar in Tajikistan in 1993-94. He is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Historyand Culture from Tajikistan State University Named after Lenin (1996), and is an

Honorary International Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan (1997).Bashiri's contributions include The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, 1984; Firdowsi'sShahname: 1000 Years After, 1994; The Samanids and the Revival of the Civilization ofthe Iranian Peoples, 1998; Prominent Tajik Figures of the 20th Century, 1999; TheImpact of Egypt on Ancient Iran, 2007; The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal al-Din Rumi,2008; Turk and Tur in Firdowsi's Shahname, 2010; and Ancient Iran: Cosmology,Mythology, History, 2012. Currently, he is working on Mulla Sadra Shirazi and Shi'iteOrthodoxy.

Gary Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies in the Department ofNear Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is Past President of the

American Oriental Society and Associate Editor of the Societys Journal. He haspublished widely on Hittite social organization and diplomacy and on Hittite religion. Thefocus of his current research is the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamianculture by the Hittites. He is completing an edition of the tablets of the Epic ofGilgamesh recovered from the site of the Hittite capital, Hattusa.

Michael Bonner is Chair and Professor of Medieval Islamic History in the Department ofNear Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He served as Director of the Centerfor Middle Eastern and North African Studies in 1997-2000 and 2001-03. ProfessorBonner received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 1987, and taught atCornell before going to Michigan. He has been a Stern Fellow at the Michigan Institute

for the Humanities, and has twice been Professeur Invit at the Institut dEtudes delIslam et des Socits du Monde Musulman, cole des Hautes tudes en SciencesSociales, Paris. He has also been Visiting Chair at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.Professor Bonners research has focused on jihad, especially in the premodern era; theearly medieval Arab-Byzantine frontier, and Islamic frontiers in comparative perspective;poverty in Islam; and markets and trade in pre-Islamic Arabia and the Caliphate. Hisrecent publications include Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (co-edited,SUNY Press, 2003); Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practices (Princeton


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University Press, 2006, 2008), also published in French and Italian; a forthcoming seriesof articles on pre-Islamic Arabian markets; and a book in preparation on frontiersocieties in early Islam.

Jamsheed K. Choksy (BA, Columbia University; PhD, Harvard University) is Professor

of Iranian Studies, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, and Affiliated FacultyMember of the Islamic Studies Program at Indiana University. He was nominated by thePresident of the USA and confirmed by the US Senate as a member of the NationalCouncil on the Humanities overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities.Choksy has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton),Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences(Stanford), and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of three books:Evil, Good, and Gender: Facets of the Feminine in Zoroastrian Religious History (NewYork: Peter Lang Publishers, 2002); Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalternsand Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society (New York: Columbia University Press,1997); and Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism: Triumph over Evil (Austin: University

of Texas Press, 1989). He was an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Sex andGender, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2007). Choksy also is a consulting editor of theEncyclopedia Iranica (New York: Columbia University).

Touraj Daryaee is the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and thePersianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center forPersian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhDin History from the University of California, Los Angeles and specializes in the historyand culture of the ancient and early medieval Iranian world. He also teaches old andmiddle Iranian languages and ancient Iranian religions. His latest books includeSasanian Persian: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, IB Tauris, 2009 and The Oxford

Handbook of Iranian History, Oxford, 2012.

Leila R. Dodykhudoeva, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow at the Unit of IranianLanguages of the Department of Indo-European Languages at the Institute ofLinguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Her research interests includelexicography, lexicology, ethnolinguistics, endangered languages, and Iranian studies.She is an expert in minor Iranian languages: indigenous, endangered, and threatenedand minority language communities. She has worked extensively in the field withspeakers of Pamiri languages. She has numerous publications on Pamiri languages,especially of the Shughnani-Rushani group. Her recent works are Pamiri languagesand Shughnani language in The Iranian Languages / Ed. Gernot Windfuhr, Language

Family Series, Routledge, 2010, with Joy I. Edelman; and a report of new data on therare Sanglichi language from Afghan Badakhshan in Fundamentals of IranianLanguages (in Russian), with Sh. Yusufbekov (2008). This has brought her to aninvestigation of Nasir Khusraw's unique vocabulary, both as a poet and philosopher. Herpublications, "The Concept of Sukhan-i Nik in Nasir Khusraw's Didactic Qasidas," withM. Reisner, in Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2005) and several workson Nasir Khusraw in Russian: The Concept of Poetic Creation: Nasir Khusraw'sQasidas, with M. Reisner (2004) and The Poetic Language as Means of Preaching: The


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Concept of Sukhan-i Nik in Nasir Khusraw's Heritage, with M. Reisner (2007).

M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin. Ghanoonparvar has also taught at the University ofIsfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona and was a Rockefeller

Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has published widely on Persian literature andculture in both English and Persian and is the author of Prophets of Doom: Literature asa Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (1984), In a Persian Mirror: Images of theWest and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (1993), Translating the Garden (2001), ReadingChubak (2005), and Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods (2006).His translations include Jalal Al-e Ahmads By the Pen,Sadeq Chubaks The PatientStone, Simin Daneshvars Savushun, Ahmad Kasravi's On Islam and Shi'ism, SadeqHedayats The Myth of Creation. Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood,Mohammad Reza Bayrami's The Tales of Sabalan, and Bahram Beyza'i's Memoirs ofthe Actor in a Supporting Role. His edited volumes include Iranian Drama: An

Anthology, In Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in Middle Eastern Societies,

Gholamhoseyn Saedis Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers, andMoniru Ravanipurs Satan Stones and Kanizu. His most recent books and translationsinclude The Neighbor Says: Letters of Nima Yushij on Modern Persian Prosody, Ja'farModarres-Sadeqis, The Horse's Head, (2011), and Red Olive: The Memoirs of NahidYusefian. He is working on two forthcoming books Iranian Films and Persian Fiction andLiterary Diseases in Persian Literature.

Vladimir Ivanov, Professor, Doctor of Philology, is a Chair of Iranian Studies in theInstitute of the Countries of Asia and Africa at Moscow State University. His researchinterests include Iranian Studies, phonetics, and lexicography. He is an expert inPersian and Dari Iranian languages and has published widely on these languages. He is

the leading expert on experimental phonetics of Iranian languages, including Persian,Dari and Avestan. In addition to his expertise in Avestan, Professor Ivanov together withDr. Leila Dodykhudoeva is currently working on the mother tongue of the Zoroastriansof Iran, documenting data in Yazd and Kerman.

Carina Jahani is the chair professor of Iranian Studies at the Department of Linguisticsand Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2005. Her main fields of research arethe Balochi language and its literature, phonetic-phonological and morphosyntacticstudies of New Persian and minority languages in Iran, orthography, languagemaintenance, and language documentation. She has organised several conferencesand been the leader of three research projects with a focus on documentation and

morphosyntactic description of Iranian languages (financed by the Swedish ResearchCouncil and the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS, London). Shehas also supervised a number of Ph.D. candidates. At present, she is working on twolanguage documentation projects (Koroshi and Galeshi) and two translation projects(one from Persian into Swedish and one from Balochi into English) as well as onorthography development for non-written Iranian languages.

Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami is professor of Persian language and literature at the


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Department of Middle Eastern Studies in New York University. His research is focusedon the literary characteristics of contemporary Persian fiction and classical Persianpoetry. He is the author of Modern Reflections of Classical Traditions in Persian Fiction(2003), a monograph that discusses some of the major characteristics of contemporaryliterary production and literary criticism in Iran. He is also the co-author, co-editor and

co-translator of a number of books, including A Feast in the Mirror: Short Stories byIranian Women (2000), Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian Stories of Migration(2004) and Critical Encounters: Essays on Persian Literature and Culture (2007).Currently he is working on "Who Writes Iran: Literary Discourses and Counter-Discourses in Contemporary Persian Fiction." This book-length project focuses onidentifying the rhetorical and aesthetic dynamics of Persian modernist writing andcontemporary Persian prison literature.

Maryam Nourzaei is a Ph.D. candidate in Iranian languages at the Department ofLinguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. She holds an M.A. in Linguisticsfrom the Fars University of Sciences and Research (Danegah-e Olum va Ta?qiqat,

Fars) Shiraz, Iran. Her main fields of research are language documentation, studies inmorphosyntax and documentation of oral literature. She has carried out onedocumentation project in Fars (Koroshi, a variant of Balochi) and one in Sistan andBaluchestan (Southern Balochi), and she has also collected oral poetry in Balochi inIran and Afghanistan.

Nasrin Rahimieh is Maseeh Chair and Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for PersianStudies and Culture and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University ofCalifornia, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature,the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian womens writing, andpost-revolutionary cinema. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West

(Brill 1990), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (Syracuse2001), Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet Of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman And Feminine PioneerOf New Persian Poetry (2010) co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Her Englishtranslation of the late Taghi Modarressis last novel, The Virgin of Solitude, as publishedin 2008 by Syracuse University Press.

Donald L. Stilo received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1971.He currently conducts research in Northwest Iranian Language Project, LinguisticsDepartment at Max Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.From 1997 to 2000, he served as a researcher with the Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter,Vafsi Language and Folk Tale Project at Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen,

Gttingen, Germany. He has taught Persian and other languages as well as linguisticsat various universities, including the University of Washington and Portland StateUniversity. He is the co-author of Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, and articles onvarious languages.

About the Editors


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M. R. Ghanoonparvar

M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor of Persian andComparative Literature and Persian Language at theUniversity of Texas at Austin. He has published widely

on Persian literature and culture in both English andPersian and is the author of Prophets of Doom:Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in ModernIran (1984), In a Persian Mirror: Images of the Westand Westerners in Iranian Fiction (1993), Translatingthe Garden (2001), Reading Chubak (2005), andPersian Cuisine:Traditional, Regional and ModernFoods (2006). His translations include Jalal Al-e

Ahmads By the Pen, Sadeq Chubaks The PatientStone, Simin Daneshvars Savushun, and SadeqHedayats The Myth of Creation and his edited volumes

include Iranian Drama: An Anthology, In Transition:Essays on Culture and Identity in Middle EasternSocieties, Gholamhoseyn Saedis Othello inWonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers, andMoniru Ravanipurs Satan Stones and Kanizu.Internationally recognized as an expert on Iranianculinary arts, he is also the author of three best-sellingbooks on Persian cuisine and numerous articles on thehistory of food and food preparation in Iran in variousencyclopedias and journals, and he has taught Iranianculinary courses throughout the United States. His

television cooking show, Persian Cuisine, was popularfor several years in the 1980s in such major cities as

Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.

Behrad Aghaei

Behrad Aghaei holds a doctorate degree in TheoreticalLinguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. Atpresent, he is a lecturer of Persian language in theDepartment of Near Eastern Studies at the University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to teaching Persian

language from elementary to advanced levels, he isconducting research on Persian syntax andmorphology. His recent publication includes a co-authored paper, "Criteria for the Selection of PersianText," with Professor Gernot Windfuhr. He is also theco-author of Persian Listening with R. Saraf, M.C.Hillmann and A. A. Pejman Aryan, published byDunwoody Press in 2008.


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