Mustafa Dehqan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mustafa Dehqan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mustafa |
| FAMILY NAME | Dehqan |
| SIGNATURE | DEHQAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Islamic Azad University, Karaj |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3967-4654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Historian to Poet
Many articles have been published on the life and career of Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520) and his contribution to the history of Ottoman Empire. There has been much less research, especially in the West, into the influential role that Persian literature, especially Niẓāmī of Ganğa, played in all facets of his works. Consequently, even fewer studies have been done on Idrīs’ own poetry, which was composed mainly either in late fifteenth century, when h…
Re-reading of the Akhlāṭ Pasha Khātūn Inscription
Interest in the group of inscriptions now referred to as ‘Akhlāṭ tombstones’ was mainly revived in 1972 by the reading and interpretation of some inscriptions of the tombstones at Akhlāṭ Meydanlık Cemetery. These readings, accompanied by breakthroughs in the decipherment of the script, allowed the inscriptions to be read for the first time. Although some inscriptions are complete, the reading and linguistic content of the majority of the inscript…
A Verse Citation in Idrīs Bidlīsī’s Hašt Bihišt (Book VI)
The Hašt Bihišt (The Eight Paradises) by Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520), a huge compendium of Ottoman history in Persian, constitutes a large collection of Arabic and Persian quotations which has survived in the text. This brief note deals with a single citation which has anonymously mentioned in Hašt Bihišt ’s unpublished Book VI
Hasht Bihisht VI, Story XI
Idrīs Bidlīsī displays a certain technical sophistication in the arrangement of the materials which he received from his predecessors and can be said to represent a rather advanced stage in the formation of the Hašt Bihišt literature. By reconstructing, where possible, the sources used by Idrīs, we can reach to both the best readings and understanding of his very difficult and hyperliterate text. Since the transmission of the manuscripts sometime…
Romanticizing the Marriage of Mehmed II
The student of Ottoman Empire always keeps a watchful eye open for the rare, sometimes unique record which has somehow survived from the heyday of Ottoman historiography or archival treasuries and illuminates an aspect of history otherwise unknown to us. One such records concerns is the Book VI of Hašt Bihišt, written by Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520), who is undoubtedly one of the most original and important intellectual figures in the Ottoman-Irania…
The Kurdish Emirate of Brādōst, 1510-1609
The Brādōst Kurdish emirate, ruling over Rawāndiz and adjoining areas including parts of Urmīya, is one of the numerous Kurdish ruling families of Kurdistan, which succumbed to the conquering Ottoman and Safavid arms in the 16th-century. While Ardalān, Ḥakkārī, Chamīšgazak, and many other Kurdish emirates were yielded to the several recent studies, Brādōst remained a neglected Kurdish emirate. By analyzing written documents produced during the 16…
A Zazaki Alevi Treatise from Diyarbekir
The overwhelming importance of Kurdish, both language and literature, in Turkish Kurdistan has tended to push all other languages into the background, though some of them are spoken by large and important populations. Zazaki and its literature is one of these that has received far less attention than it deserves, many educated people outside of Turkish Kurdistan being hardly aware of its existence. In this article I have presented the content of …
Kurdish Glosses on Aristotelian Logical Texts
Some of the outstanding masters of Kurdish historical schools (Medresê) are usually and rightly seen as belonging to the Aristotelian tradition. In this introductory study I briefly present some manuscripts of Kurdish glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, and show that the Aristotelian logical tradition, as inherited from early Islamic philosophers, also formed an important strand in Kurdish schools. Kurdish students' peculiar approach to Aristo…
Qisey Giranba
Qisey Giranba" (The Valuable Remark) is one of the most well-known folktales in present-day Mukrî Kurdistan, a stateless nation in northwestern Iran. Unlike northern and southern Kurdistan—where folktales are appreciated in written form—literature in Mukrî Kurdistan is most popularly appreciated in its oral form and has not been widely published. "Qisey Giranba" is a hekayet largely transmitted orally in the region by elder beyt singers, but a to…
Arkawāzī and His Baweyaļ
The study of southern Kurdish literature is largely dominated by a bipolar perspective. Literature in southern Kurdistan is mostly, if not exclusively viewed in the context of relations between Iran on the one hand and, on the other, Iraq, the local states of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To be sure, Iran acquired a dominant role in southern Kurdistan, yet it is also considered to have been the only dynamic factor in southern Kurdish d…
Zîn-ə Hördemîr
With the exception of a minor mention, which Sharaf Khān (b.1543) made in the Sharafnāma , the first information about the most southern group of Kurdish tribes in Iranian Kurdistan, the Lek, first became available to modern readers in Bustān al-Sīyāḥa , a geographical and historical Persian text by Shīrwānī (1773–1832). These hitherto unknown Lek communities, were probably settled in north-western and northern Luristan, known as Lekistan, by ord…
Notes on a Bahāʾī Polemic Against Ahl-i Haqq
A Shabak Contemporary Polemic against the Yezidi Religion
s the transmitted heritage of Yezidi1 theology came to be more widely jljL known and cultivated in imdmi Shiite2 intellectual circles, a number of re ligious scholars came to have an increasing sense that traditional culama> and fiqh were fundamentally able to show the 'basic Yezidi lies' to the medieval imd mi Shiites. So we can show the same to the modern Shiites too. It is within this context that some contemporary scholars undertook the const…
Tehran's Unmined Archive of Kurdish Jewry
This brief article offers an overview of the various Kurdo-Jewish records preserved in Tehran in the Iranian Parliament Records archives. The documents reflect the perspectives of Jews and non-Jews alike and were originally reported by Kurdish officials of the Jewish colonies in Iranian Kurdistan, by Jewish senators of the National Parliament of Iran, as well as by Kurdish peasants of Kurdistan. Most of the documents are in Persian, with the exce…
Nehrî Documents from the Institute of Persian National Records
The Kurdish nationalist tradition is surely not very old. The earliest origins of Kurdish nationalism coincide with the beginning of modernity in Kurdistan, which emerged with the secular humanism of the ‘Western Enlightenment,’ ushering in a gradual decline of traditional Islamic identity. The nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Kurdish history were a period for the incubation and growth of nationalism in Kurdistan. The famous tempor…
References to Kurds in Medieval Arabic and Persian Literature
While studies of the Kurds usually concentrate on principal Kurdish materials, much less attention has been paid to the Kurdish community and its related topics as reflected in non-Kurdish sources. Until recently, the Kurds were known often from Kurdish literature and a very few non-Kurdish historical works, mostly difficult of access. This article presents the most important references to Kurds in Arabic and Persian sources, from the viewpoint o…
References to Kurds in Medieval Arabic and Persian Literature
While studies of the Kurds usually concentrate on principal Kurdish materials, much less attention has been paid to the Kurdish community and its related topics as reflected in non-Kurdish sources. Until recently, the Kurds were known often from Kurdish literature and a very few non-Kurdish historical works, mostly difficult of access. This article presents the most important references to Kurds in Arabic and Persian sources, from the viewpoint o…
References to Kurds in Medieval Arabic and Persian Literature
While studies of the Kurds usually concentrate on principal Kurdish materials, much less attention has been paid to the Kurdish community and its related topics as reflected in non-Kurdish sources. Until recently, the Kurds were known often from Kurdish literature and a very few non-Kurdish historical works, mostly difficult of access. This article presents the most important references to Kurds in Arabic and Persian sources, from the viewpoint o…
Tehran's Unmined Archive of Kurdish Jewry
This brief article offers an overview of the various Kurdo-Jewish records preserved in Tehran in the Iranian Parliament Records archives. The documents reflect the perspectives of Jews and non-Jews alike and were originally reported by Kurdish officials of the Jewish colonies in Iranian Kurdistan, by Jewish senators of the National Parliament of Iran, as well as by Kurdish peasants of Kurdistan. Most of the documents are in Persian, with the exce…
Nehrî Documents from the Institute of Persian National Records
The Kurdish nationalist tradition is surely not very old. The earliest origins of Kurdish nationalism coincide with the beginning of modernity in Kurdistan, which emerged with the secular humanism of the ‘Western Enlightenment,’ ushering in a gradual decline of traditional Islamic identity. The nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries in Kurdish history were a period for the incubation and growth of nationalism in Kurdistan. The famous tempor…
Zîn-ə Hördemîr
With the exception of a minor mention, which Sharaf Khān (b.1543) made in the Sharafnāma , the first information about the most southern group of Kurdish tribes in Iranian Kurdistan, the Lek, first became available to modern readers in Bustān al-Sīyāḥa , a geographical and historical Persian text by Shīrwānī (1773–1832). These hitherto unknown Lek communities, were probably settled in north-western and northern Luristan, known as Lekistan, by ord…
Notes on a Bahāʾī Polemic Against Ahl-i Haqq
A Shabak Contemporary Polemic against the Yezidi Religion
s the transmitted heritage of Yezidi1 theology came to be more widely jljL known and cultivated in imdmi Shiite2 intellectual circles, a number of re ligious scholars came to have an increasing sense that traditional culama> and fiqh were fundamentally able to show the 'basic Yezidi lies' to the medieval imd mi Shiites. So we can show the same to the modern Shiites too. It is within this context that some contemporary scholars undertook the const…
Qisey Giranba
Qisey Giranba" (The Valuable Remark) is one of the most well-known folktales in present-day Mukrî Kurdistan, a stateless nation in northwestern Iran. Unlike northern and southern Kurdistan—where folktales are appreciated in written form—literature in Mukrî Kurdistan is most popularly appreciated in its oral form and has not been widely published. "Qisey Giranba" is a hekayet largely transmitted orally in the region by elder beyt singers, but a to…
Arkawāzī and His Baweyaļ
The study of southern Kurdish literature is largely dominated by a bipolar perspective. Literature in southern Kurdistan is mostly, if not exclusively viewed in the context of relations between Iran on the one hand and, on the other, Iraq, the local states of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To be sure, Iran acquired a dominant role in southern Kurdistan, yet it is also considered to have been the only dynamic factor in southern Kurdish d…
A Zazaki Alevi Treatise from Diyarbekir
The overwhelming importance of Kurdish, both language and literature, in Turkish Kurdistan has tended to push all other languages into the background, though some of them are spoken by large and important populations. Zazaki and its literature is one of these that has received far less attention than it deserves, many educated people outside of Turkish Kurdistan being hardly aware of its existence. In this article I have presented the content of …
Kurdish Glosses on Aristotelian Logical Texts
Some of the outstanding masters of Kurdish historical schools (Medresê) are usually and rightly seen as belonging to the Aristotelian tradition. In this introductory study I briefly present some manuscripts of Kurdish glosses on Aristotelian logical texts, and show that the Aristotelian logical tradition, as inherited from early Islamic philosophers, also formed an important strand in Kurdish schools. Kurdish students' peculiar approach to Aristo…
The Kurdish Emirate of Brādōst, 1510-1609
The Brādōst Kurdish emirate, ruling over Rawāndiz and adjoining areas including parts of Urmīya, is one of the numerous Kurdish ruling families of Kurdistan, which succumbed to the conquering Ottoman and Safavid arms in the 16th-century. While Ardalān, Ḥakkārī, Chamīšgazak, and many other Kurdish emirates were yielded to the several recent studies, Brādōst remained a neglected Kurdish emirate. By analyzing written documents produced during the 16…
Re-reading of the Akhlāṭ Pasha Khātūn Inscription
Interest in the group of inscriptions now referred to as ‘Akhlāṭ tombstones’ was mainly revived in 1972 by the reading and interpretation of some inscriptions of the tombstones at Akhlāṭ Meydanlık Cemetery. These readings, accompanied by breakthroughs in the decipherment of the script, allowed the inscriptions to be read for the first time. Although some inscriptions are complete, the reading and linguistic content of the majority of the inscript…
A Verse Citation in Idrīs Bidlīsī’s Hašt Bihišt (Book VI)
The Hašt Bihišt (The Eight Paradises) by Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520), a huge compendium of Ottoman history in Persian, constitutes a large collection of Arabic and Persian quotations which has survived in the text. This brief note deals with a single citation which has anonymously mentioned in Hašt Bihišt ’s unpublished Book VI
Hasht Bihisht VI, Story XI
Idrīs Bidlīsī displays a certain technical sophistication in the arrangement of the materials which he received from his predecessors and can be said to represent a rather advanced stage in the formation of the Hašt Bihišt literature. By reconstructing, where possible, the sources used by Idrīs, we can reach to both the best readings and understanding of his very difficult and hyperliterate text. Since the transmission of the manuscripts sometime…
Romanticizing the Marriage of Mehmed II
The student of Ottoman Empire always keeps a watchful eye open for the rare, sometimes unique record which has somehow survived from the heyday of Ottoman historiography or archival treasuries and illuminates an aspect of history otherwise unknown to us. One such records concerns is the Book VI of Hašt Bihišt, written by Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520), who is undoubtedly one of the most original and important intellectual figures in the Ottoman-Irania…
From Historian to Poet
Many articles have been published on the life and career of Idrīs Bidlīsī (1457–1520) and his contribution to the history of Ottoman Empire. There has been much less research, especially in the West, into the influential role that Persian literature, especially Niẓāmī of Ganğa, played in all facets of his works. Consequently, even fewer studies have been done on Idrīs’ own poetry, which was composed mainly either in late fifteenth century, when h…
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