meysam mohammadi
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Ayādgār ī Zarērān (Memorial of Zarēr) is a text that in its original version has been composed in Parthian language. This text has been amended and distorted in the process of transcription into the Middle Persian alphabet and language. This makes it difficult to read some of the words and sentences ...
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Ayādgār ī Zarērān (Memorial of Zarēr) is a text that in its original version has been composed in Parthian language. This text has been amended and distorted in the process of transcription into the Middle Persian alphabet and language. This makes it difficult to read some of the words and sentences and scholars have taken different ways in reading them. In this paper, these readings are first reviewed and criticized, and then some new suggestions are put forward. The basis of these suggestions is the adaptation between Ayādgār ī Zarērān and Draxt ī Āsūrīg (Assyrian tree), an originally Parthian text, and the evidence of the Parthian Manichaean texts. The reading of two passages from the New Persian texts written in Ray, Qumis, Gorgan, and Herat also provides some testimonies. In some phrases, some emendations have been made and in others we have been able to present a new reading by identifying a kind of elegy which is evidenced in the Parthian Manichean texts.
Vahid Idgah torghabei
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The accurate pronunciation of words in ancient Persian texts has always been problematic, due to the changes that have occurred in the Persian language. In this paper, the pronunciations of some words in Shahnameh are studied. The study includes the words which the literati do not have an agreement on ...
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The accurate pronunciation of words in ancient Persian texts has always been problematic, due to the changes that have occurred in the Persian language. In this paper, the pronunciations of some words in Shahnameh are studied. The study includes the words which the literati do not have an agreement on their pronunciation, or the common idea about them is incorrect. Some of these words have wrong diacritics in all Shahnameh editions, and others do not have correct diacritical marks in some editions. In this paper, more emphasis is placed on the Khaleghi-Motlagh, and Jeyhouni editions of Shahnameh, because their editors have used diacritical marks more than others, although they did not pronounce all the words correctly. Through proper consideration of how Ferdowsi rhymes, as well as some other literal harmonies in his poetry, the accurate reading is achievable, provided that the entire text of Shahnameh be examined. This paper is based on such an approach.
Raziye Abadian
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We have now at hand two editions of Onsori’s Divan , none of them is ideal. This is clauesd, first of all by the corruption of the manuscripts. This article attempts to examine and rectify a number of verses of Onsori’s Divan which have not been correctly recorded by the editors ...
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We have now at hand two editions of Onsori’s Divan , none of them is ideal. This is clauesd, first of all by the corruption of the manuscripts. This article attempts to examine and rectify a number of verses of Onsori’s Divan which have not been correctly recorded by the editors of the Divan in any of its two main editions; the 1st by Yahya Gharib, edited in 1341 S.H., and the 2nd by Mohammad Dabirsiaghi, edited in 1363 S.H. The basis of this study is the same manuscripts used by the mentioned editors. In addition, an older manuscript to which they had not access is used to find the correct forms of some of the verses. In this study most of the emendations were made upon grammatical and semantic criteria, especially regarding to the ancient Persian poetry conventions and figures of speech, as well as its literary traditions and style principals. .
Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi; Mohammad Hossain Soleymani
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This article is concerned with a comparative review of Jahân-Nâme by Mohammad bin Najib Bakran and manuscripts of Masâlek va Mamâlek by Abu al-Hasan Sâʽid bin Ali Jurjâni written by during the middle of ninth century AH. From this review it becomes clear ...
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This article is concerned with a comparative review of Jahân-Nâme by Mohammad bin Najib Bakran and manuscripts of Masâlek va Mamâlek by Abu al-Hasan Sâʽid bin Ali Jurjâni written by during the middle of ninth century AH. From this review it becomes clear that Jorjâniʼs main source in writing his book was Jahân-Nâme and therefore Jahân-Nâme is also a good source for editing the Masâlek. However, the manuscripts of his Masâlek at our hand are by far more than the manuscripts of Jahân-Nâme, and this help us to correct some of errors occurred in editing of Jahân-Nâme.
