Vīs and Rāmīn
An anomaly among Iranian courtly romances
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9276605 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Minoo S Southgate (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-52 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-869X • E-ISSN: 2051-2066 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0035869x00139097 |
| OpenAlex | W2318410689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Composed somewhere between 1040 and 1054, Fakhr al-Dīn As'ad Gurgānī's metrical romance of Vīs and Rāmīn celebrates the adulterous love of Queen Vīs and the King's younger brother, Rāmīn. In his introduction the poet informs us that the tale of Vīs and Rāmīn enjoyed great popularity in his time although it was not widely understood in its Pahlavi version or satisfactorily rendered into New Persian. Based on a lost Pahlavi original, Gurgānī's version takes place in ancient Zoroastrian Iran. Scholars have variously identified its setting as Sasanian (A.D. 226–651) and Arsacid Iran (247 B.C.–A.D. 224). Perhaps our scant knowledge of the Arsacid nobility prevents us from deciding between an Arsacid and a Sasanian setting; moreover, even if the story is of Arsacid origin, its subsequent adaptations and interpretations must have altered its original characteristics
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Brother · Islam · Literature · Nobility · Persian · Popularity · Queen (butterfly · Romance · Sociology · Theology · Zoroastrianism · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |