The Politics of Poetics in Early Qajar Iran

Writing Royal-Commissioned Tazkeras at Fath-ʿAli Shāh’s Court

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ID12957667
AuthorsNaofumi Abe (The University of Tokyo, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume10
Issue2
Pages129-157
Publication date2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Persianate Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-7094 • E-ISSN: 1874-7167
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18747167-12341311
OpenAlexW2796573471
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

The middle of the eighteenth century reportedly witnessed the emergence of the new literary movement in Persian poetry, called the “ bāzgasht-e adabi ,” or literary return, which rejected the seventeenth-century mainstream Indian or tāza-guʾi style. This literary movement recently merits increased attention from many scholars who are interested in wider Persianate cultures. This article explores the reception of this movement in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Iran and the role played by the Qajar royal court in it, mainly by the analysis of a specific sub-genre of tazkera s, called “royal-commissioned tazkera s,” which were produced from the reign of the second Qajar monarch Fath-ʿAli Shāh onward. A main focus will be on the reciprocal relationship between the court poets/literati and the shah, which presumably somehow affected our understanding of Persian literature today

Ancient history · Art · Literature · Mainstream · Persian · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Reign · Style (visual arts · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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