Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar
Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also taught at the University of Isfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona, and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has published extensively on Persian literature and culture in English and Persian and has translated numerous works of modern Persian literature into English. He is the recipient of the Lois Roth Prize for Literary Translation (2008), the MLA-Roth Translation Award (2025), and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Association of Teachers of Persian (2021) and Lifetime Achievement Award from Encyclopædia Iranica (2009).
- FARMAYAN, HAFEZ
FARMAYAN, HAFEZ (Ḥāfeẓ Farmānfarmāʾiān; b. Tehran, 7 October 1927; d. Austin, Texas, 4 July 2015; Figure 1), prominent historian of…
- DAMPOḴT(AK)
DAMPOḴT(AK), DAMĪ, terms referring to rice cooked in a single pot (cf. polow and čelow; see čelow-kabāb). Dampoḵt or damī…
- COOKBOOKS
COOKBOOKS, classical, in Persian. Relatively few books in Persian exclusively devoted to the preparation of food are known, even though…
- BŪRĀNĪ
BŪRĀNĪ (rarely būlānī), generic term for a category of Iranian dishes, now usually prepared with yogurt and cooked vegetables and…
- BOZBĀŠ
BOZBĀŠ, Azeri Turkish name for an Iranian dish usually called ābgūšt-e sabzī (green vegetable stew; Ghanoonparvar, pp. 102-03; see ābguᵛšt);…
- GAZ (1) ii. CANDY
ii. CANDY The candy gaz, made mainly in Isfahan, is prepared from high-quality gaz-angobīn from Ḵᵛānsār. To prepare gaz, gaz-angobīn…
- DŪḠ
DŪḠ, beverage made of yogurt and plain or carbonated water and often served chilled as a refreshing summer drink or…
- DRAMA
DRAMA, in formal Western terms a relatively new art form in Persia, though various types of dramatic performance, including religious…
- DONBA
DONBA, the fatty part of the sheep’s tail, traditionally used as a cooking fat, sometimes in melted form, or as…
- DOLMA
DOLMA (or dūlma), Turkish term (Doerfer, III, pp. 203-04) for stuffed vegetable or fruit dishes common in the Middle East…
- KOMĀJ
Figure 1. Photograph of Komāj. KOMĀJ, a type of sweetened flat bread or pie, which originally camel drivers baked in…
- ḤEJĀZI, MOḤAMMAD MOṬIʿ-AL-DAWLA
ḤEJĀZI, MOḤAMMAD MOṬIʿ-AL-DAWLA, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, translator, a government official and a member of the Senate (b. Tehran…
- KELIDAR
KELIDAR, a monumental novel of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books published over the period…
- ČAŠMHĀYAŠ
ČAŠMHĀYAŠ (1952; tr. by John O’Kane as Her Eyes, 1989), a novel considered by many critics as the most important…
- JEN-NĀMA
JEN-NĀMA (The book of jinn, Sweden, 1998), the last novel—and arguably the magnum opus—of Hushang Golshiri, the eminent novelist and literary…
- KELIDAR [2011]
KELIDAR (1978-1984), a monumental novel of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books by Maḥmud Dawlatābādi…
- CHUBAK, Sadeq
Figure 1. Photography of Sadeq Chubak. CHUBAK, Sadeq (Ṣādeq Čubak, b. Bušehr, 5 August 1916; d. Berkeley, Calif., 3 July…