Hushang Golshiri’s Maʿsum-e sevvom (The Third Innocent) as a Political Thriller
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6437560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renata Rusek-Kowalska (0000-0002-6513-9236, Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Persianate Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-7094 • E-ISSN: 1874-7167 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18747167-bja10055 |
| OpenAlex | W4408805812 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Written in 1973, Hushang Golshiri (1938–2000)’s Ma ʿ sum-e sevvom (The Third Innocent), is a multilayered short story that can be read from various perspectives. In this study, I examine both its historical context and intertextual references to the twelfth-century romance of Khosrow ō Shirin by the poet Nezāmi Ganjavi (1141–1209). Indeed, that medieval romance serves the reader as a hermeneutical key, providing insight to the puzzle-like, modern work of fiction and legitimizing the possibility of its reading as a political thriller
Political science · Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |