The Memory of Light
The Persian Concept of Āberū
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12844126 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdalena Rodziewicz (0000-0002-5649-7103, University of Warsaw, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 274-285 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iran and the Caucasus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1573-384X • E-ISSN: 1609-8498 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1573384x-20180305 |
| OpenAlex | W2894533833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The article is devoted to the Persian concept of āberū , which in contemporary Persian expresses the meanings of ‘good reputation’, ‘good social image’, and ‘honour’ that a man possesses in the eyes of others. This concept, fundamental to the Persian culture, can be studied from multiple perspectives—linguistic, sociological, religious, or ethical. However, the present article’s main objective is to draw attention to the parallelism between the concept of āberū and the idea of light and luminosity. The author attempts to reconstruct the ‘memory’ of this concept by analysing the etymology of the term āberū , its semantics and selected contexts of its use in the classical Persian texts
Art · Epistemology · Etymology · Honour · Linguistics · Literature · Persian · Persian literature · Semantics (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |