Mahmoud Omidsalar
Biographic Data
| ID | 707994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmoud Omidsalar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmoud |
| FAMILY NAME | Omidsalar |
| SIGNATURE | OMIDSALAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in the Sh ā hn ā meh
Zāl is the embodiment of the heroic culture which shapes and determines the conduct of the Shāhnāmeh heroes from Manūchihr through Rustam's death. For Zāl to attain that level of moral authority, the poem semiotically endows him with innate wisdom symbolized by his white hair at birth. By the end of the story, when he is still a relatively young man, he has gained the authority to change the ruling dynasty by choosing and crowning kings at will (…
Mujmal al-Tawarikh wa-'l-Qisas
To Emend or Not To Emend? Notes on Restoring the Text of the Shāhnāmah
Every edition is essentially an act of interpretation. One generally begins with recording the testimony of a number of surviving witnesses, which may be extant manuscripts or quotations of the text in ancillary sources. One then weighs these testimonies in order to arrive at an editorial decision. The archaic language of the Shāhnāmah requires editors who desire to tackle it to gain a solid knowledge of Iranian philology, the linguistic usages c…
Rostam's Seven Trials and the Logic of Epic Narrative in the Shahnama
This paper revisits the episode of Rostam's seven trials in Persian literary and folk traditions, and his slaying of the White Demon. It takes issue with Noldeke's interpretation of the demon as a survival of an ancient white deity and instead suggests that the demon represents Rostam's albino father, Zal. Rostam's fight with the demon is analyzed as an Oedipal conflict in which the hero overcomes and kills the bad father in a cave. It proposes t…
Editing the Garshāspnāmah in Light of Shakespearean Scholarship
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. By Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 243, foreword by Gregory Nagy, photographs, drawings, maps, appendix: Arabic texts in transliteration, bibliography, subject index. $42.50 cloth) The great migration of Bedouin Banu Hilal tribe in eighth and ninth centuries AD, from Arabia across Levant and Sinai to…
Unburdening Ferdowsi
B. Review article: Epic and sedition: the case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
EPIC AND SEDITION: THE CASE OF FERDOWSI'S SHAHNAMEH. By DICK DAVIS. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992. xxxvi, 222 pp. $30.00 (hb)
The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Poet in Performance
Typologie des persischen Volksmarchens
A Romanian Political Joke in 12th Century Iranian Sources
Oedipus: Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature. Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed t…
Storytellers in Classical Persian Texts
Oedipus: Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature. Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed t…
Typologie des persischen Volksmarchens
Rostam's Seven Trials and the Logic of Epic Narrative in the Shahnama
This paper revisits the episode of Rostam's seven trials in Persian literary and folk traditions, and his slaying of the White Demon. It takes issue with Noldeke's interpretation of the demon as a survival of an ancient white deity and instead suggests that the demon represents Rostam's albino father, Zal. Rostam's fight with the demon is analyzed as an Oedipal conflict in which the hero overcomes and kills the bad father in a cave. It proposes t…
A Romanian Political Joke in 12th Century Iranian Sources
Storytellers in Classical Persian Texts
A Romanian Political Joke in 12th Century Iranian Sources
Oedipus: Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature. Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed t…
Typologie des persischen Volksmarchens
The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Oral Poet in Performance
B. Review article: Epic and sedition: the case of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
EPIC AND SEDITION: THE CASE OF FERDOWSI'S SHAHNAMEH. By DICK DAVIS. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 1992. xxxvi, 222 pp. $30.00 (hb)
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. By Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 243, foreword by Gregory Nagy, photographs, drawings, maps, appendix: Arabic texts in transliteration, bibliography, subject index. $42.50 cloth) The great migration of Bedouin Banu Hilal tribe in eighth and ninth centuries AD, from Arabia across Levant and Sinai to…
Unburdening Ferdowsi
Editing the Garshāspnāmah in Light of Shakespearean Scholarship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rostam's Seven Trials and the Logic of Epic Narrative in the Shahnama
This paper revisits the episode of Rostam's seven trials in Persian literary and folk traditions, and his slaying of the White Demon. It takes issue with Noldeke's interpretation of the demon as a survival of an ancient white deity and instead suggests that the demon represents Rostam's albino father, Zal. Rostam's fight with the demon is analyzed as an Oedipal conflict in which the hero overcomes and kills the bad father in a cave. It proposes t…
To Emend or Not To Emend? Notes on Restoring the Text of the Shāhnāmah
Every edition is essentially an act of interpretation. One generally begins with recording the testimony of a number of surviving witnesses, which may be extant manuscripts or quotations of the text in ancillary sources. One then weighs these testimonies in order to arrive at an editorial decision. The archaic language of the Shāhnāmah requires editors who desire to tackle it to gain a solid knowledge of Iranian philology, the linguistic usages c…
Mujmal al-Tawarikh wa-'l-Qisas
The Reluctant Warrior: Semiotic Notes on the Story of Zāl in the Sh ā hn ā meh
Zāl is the embodiment of the heroic culture which shapes and determines the conduct of the Shāhnāmeh heroes from Manūchihr through Rustam's death. For Zāl to attain that level of moral authority, the poem semiotically endows him with innate wisdom symbolized by his white hair at birth. By the end of the story, when he is still a relatively young man, he has gained the authority to change the ruling dynasty by choosing and crowning kings at will (…
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