Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
Articles by Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh
- CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS x. China in Medieval Persian Literature
CHINESE-IRANIAN RELATIONS x. China in Medieval Persian Literature In medieval writings Čīn may mean either China proper or eastern Turkestan…
- FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM ii. Hajw-nāma
FERDOWSI ii. HAJW-NĀMA Hajw-nāma is the title of a verse lampoon of Sultan Maḥmūd of Ḡazna attributed to Ferdowsī. According…
- FARŠĒDVARD
FARŠĒDVARD, a Kayanian prince in the Iranian legendary history, son of Goštāsp and brother of Esfandīār (qq.v.). He is mentioned…
- FARĪBORZ
FARĪBORZ, son of Key Kāvūs. Ṭabarī (I, p. 605) and Balʿamī (ed. Bahār, I, p. 603) have recorded his name…
- FARANGĪS
FARANGĪS, eldest daughter of Afrāsīāb and wife of Sīāvaḵš. In the Bundahišn (TD2, 35.21) her name is Vīspān-fryā. In Ṭabarī…
- FARĀMARZ-NĀMA
FARĀMARZ-NĀMA, a Persian epic recounting the adventures of the hero Farāmarz. According to the Tārīḵ-e Sīstān (p. 7) there was…
- FARĀMARZ
FARĀMARZ, son of Iran’s national hero Rostam (q.v.), and himself a renowned hero of the Iranian national epic. His adventures…
- EROTIC LITERATURE
EROTIC LITERATURE, expressed in Persian by the neologism adabīyāt-e erotīk, is not a clearly defined genre since the concept of…
- DERAFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN
DERAFŠ-E KĀVĪĀN, the legendary royal standard of the Sasanian kings. In the Šāh-nāma (ed. Khaleghi-Motlagh, pp. 66-70, vv. 184 ff.)…
- DAVĀZDAH ROḴ
DAVĀZDAH ROḴ (Twelve combats), designation of a relatively long episode in the Šāh-nāma (2,500 verses; Moscow, V, pp. 86-234), in…
- DAQĪQĪ, ABŪ MANṢŪR AḤMAD
DAQĪQĪ, ABŪ MANṢŪR AḤMAD b. Aḥmad, one of the famous poets of the last years of the Samanid (204-395/819-1005) dynasty….
- BOZGŪŠ
BOZGŪŠ, the traditional reading of the name of a mythical tribe in Māzandarān (i.e., India, see Monchi-Zadeh, pp. 62ff.) mentioned…
- BORZŪYA
BORZŪYA (also transcribed Burzōē), a physician of the time of Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79) and responsible for a translation of…
- BORZMEHR
BORZMEHR (Pahlavi, lit. “deep affection”) one of the priests (mōbed) and scribes who served Ḵosrow I (r. 531-79). Borzmehr was…
- BĪŽAN
BĪŽAN, son of Gīv by Rostam’s daughter Bānū Gošasp, figures prominently in the Šāh-nāma as a hero in Kay Ḵosrow’s…
- BEHZĀD
BEHZĀD, the name of the black horse belonging successively to Sīāvoš, Kay Ḵosrow, and Goštāsb. Like Raḵš, Rostam’s horse, Behzād…
- FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM i. Life
FERDOWSI, ABU’L-QĀSEM (حکیم ابوالقاسم فردوسی) i. LIFE Life. Apart from his patronymic (konya), Abu’l-Qāsem, and his pen name (taḵallosá), Ferdowsī, nothing…
- GOSTAHAM
GOSTAHAM (< OI.*Vistaxma, "wielder of far-reaching power"; New. Pers. Gostaham, BestÂām; see Justi, Nāmenbuch, pp. 371-72), name of two heroes...
- GOŠASB BĀNU
GOŠASB BĀNU, (or Bānu Gošasb) entitled savār (knight), Rostam’s daughter and the wife of Gēv (qq.v.). She is the heroine…
- GORGIN
GORGIN, son of Milād, one of the heroes of the reigns of Kay Kāvus and Kay Ḵosrow (Šāh-nāma, ed. Khaleghi,…
- GORDĀFARID
GORDĀFARID, daughter of Gaždaham (q.v.), the castellan of Dež-e Sapid (q.v.), the Iranian fortress on the frontier with Turān. She…
- GĒV
GĒV, one of the foremost heroes of the national epic in the reigns of Kay Kāvūs and Kay Ḵosrow (qq.v.)….
- GAŽDAHAM
GAŽDAHAM, an Iranian hero of Dež-e Safīd (q.v.), a fortress near the border seperating Iran from Tūrān, during the reigns…
- FORŪD (2)
FORŪD (or Ferōd), son of Sīāvaḵš and half brother of Kay Ḵosrow. His mother is Jarīra (according to the Šāh-nāma;…