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Volume 11, Issue 43 (6-2014)
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Hamid Reza Ardestani Rostami, PH.D.
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The legendary poet of Iran, Ferdowsi, in the prelude of his collection of poems, Shahnameh, has sincerely praised the former ruler of his hometown, the city of Tous, Abu Mansour Mohammad ibn Abdul-Razzaq. The author of this article believes two cultural and political factors have led to this development. Culture-wise, Abu Mansour has gathered the poems of Ferdowsi in the framework of Shahnameh. Also, based on the descriptions rendered by Ferdowsi on Abu Mansour, the latter must have been a Parthian. Abu Mansour maintained feudal ideals, such as non-centralized power and compromise in religion. Hence, given that Abu Mansour intended to revive the feudal traditions of his forefathers, and was against the centralized ruling systems of Ghaznavid and Abbasid caliphs of his era, he has been praised by Ferdowsi. Hence, it can be said that two cultural and political factors have led Ferdowsi to praise Abu Mansour.
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2024)
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Tragedy is a type of dramatic literature that originated from ancient Greece and is performed on the stage in the form of a play. The great Greek philosopher Aristotle was one of the first to fully discuss and explain tragedy in his book The Poetics. He has introduced elements and components for composing a tragedy that plays an important role in the quality, attractiveness, and superiority of the tragedy.
In Persian literature, some works are a reflection of ancient Greek tragedies and Aristotle's view on this matter; Among the most prominent of these works is Ferdowsi's Shahnameh with stories that are very similar to ancient Greek tragedies. The present research aims to show the similarity and influence of Persian literature with Greek literature in the field of tragedy and with a descriptive-analytical method to compare the story of Siavash from the Shahnameh and the tragedy of Hippolytus by Euripides as a case study and has shown this alignment and effectiveness.
Najmeddin Jabbari,
Volume 13, Issue 49 (12-2020)
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Beyhaqi, the renowned secretary of the Ghaznavid court, was a contemporary of Ferdowsi. In his historical account, The History of Beyhaqi (Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī), written on the basis of thirty-seven years of being a court secretary, Beyhaqi revealed many details of the courtiers of the Ghaznavid era. However, he did not refer to Ferdowsi and his interactions with Mahmoud's court at all. Moreover, to enhance the persuasiveness of his words, Beyhaqi has quoted from many poets, yet no verse or stanza, though highly related to the historical events of The History of Beyhaqi, was cited from Ferdowsi. In studies on this matter, most of the researchers focused on extratextual analysis and related this to Ferdowsi’s life events and his rejection by Mahmoud court. Noteworthy, an intratextual analysis of Shahnameh has been mostly ignored. Studying and examining these studies has shown that most researchers have imposed their own preferences on the analyses, undermining the validity of their studies. The current paper, by employing an analytical and descriptive methodology, was aimed at studying the anti-mythical views of writers, contemporary to Beyhaqi. After analysis, it became apparent that mythical texts, in Beyhaqi’s view, were considered as irrational and unimportant and Shahnameh was no exception. Therefore, he refrained to quote from Ferdowsi in his book.
Volume 20, Issue 80 (4-2023)
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Although Ferdowsi's Shahnameh contains many narrations of Iranian myths, there are myths, that Ferdowsi did not address for some reason. One of the most controversial myths that are not present in the Shahnameh is the myth of Arash Kamangir. Some scholars believe that Ferdowsi did not intentionally refer to this myth, and others believe that this myth was not in Ferdowsi's sources. However, this research tries to look at this issue from the perspective of "paradigm analysis" And show that in the Shahnameh paradigm, the natural and obvious act is choosing life over death and the act of consciously and intentionally choosing death has never occurred by the heroes. In other words, the choice of deliberate death or martyrdom is an issue that is outside the Shahnameh paradigm. And Arash's myth could not have a place in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh because it is a story in praise of martyrdom. This is the result of comparing the paradigms that govern the Shahnameh and the myth of Arash, while the deliberate choice of death is absent in the paradigm of the Shahnameh, it is emphasized and praised in the paradigm of the myth of Arash. Hence, the paradigmatic contradiction between the two texts has prevented the presence of such a myth in the Shahnameh.
Volume 21, Issue 84 (4-2024)
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the ways to discover their beauty. In this study, the association of an image with another array is assumed to be one of the reasons for the dynamics of Shahnameh literary images. The simile is the most frequent image of the Shahnameh due to the requirements of the epic text. After extracting the similes of the first volume of Shahnameh, the most widely used literary industries in verses containing similes were examined. eighty percent of the similes were associated with symmetry. Due to their significant frequency and the answer to which requirements of their epic species depend on their simultaneous use, both of them were assumed to be a stylistic component. Therefore, the reason for combination of these two and their effect on association, creation or strengthening of context, preventing the complexity of images and creating a narrative space, novelty of images and characterization in Shahnameh were studied and explained in three areas of language, narrative and rhetoric. The result is that the combination of semmetry and simile with a stylistic usage is used to continue the concept in the horizontal and vertical axis of the text, to avoid the vulgarity of simple and sometimes repetitive similes, to compensate for the shortcomings of characterization in the epic text and to maintain the story continuity used in the long text of Shahnameh.
Volume 25, Issue 1 (3-2021)
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Introduction
Event tourism as one of the types of tourism that according to Getz, has been proposed in the tourism industry and research community for several decades, is one of the important motivating factors in tourism and in programs. The development and marketing of most areas is an important factor. With this description, in recent decades, the event management sector is evolving and becoming a strong industry that has been considered through the development of communities. In this regard, in order to achieve success, it is necessary to pay attention not only to the shareholders, but also to all groups and individuals who influence or are affected by the development of the event in any way.
The present study was organized in line with regional development by event management which has identified, prioritized and analyzed different dimensions of the success that affects the perception of organizers.
Methodology
In this study with combined methodology and descriptive-analytical survey method, different dimensions of the components that affect the perception of organizers are identified, prioritized and analyzed.
For this purpose, the various dimensions categorized by the panel of experts, and all the effective components on the perception of the organizers were presented. Afterwards, by a questionnaire among 50 organizers of the Ferdowsi commemoration in Toos area of Mashhad city, which were selected by Delphi counting technique, their perception of event was measured and then analyzed by fuzzy TOPSIS method.
Results and discussion
In this research, in a step beyond the previous researches, the dimensions affecting the event have been prioritized, and provide a more detailed roadmap for the organizers on how to pay attention to the dimensions affecting the success of an event.
The results show that physical perception with the first rank has the greatest impact on the process of understanding the event for the organizers. In other words, physical space, accessibility, infrastructure development, diverse and aesthetic content qualities, and imagery can create a better and more effective understanding in management of events.s.
