Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero

Texts and Traditions of the Farāmarznāme and the Persian Epic Cycle

Bibliographic Data

ID9316616
AuthorsMarjolijn van Zutphen (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages772
Publication date2014-09-25
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFaramarz, the Sistani hero (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004268289
OpenAlexW4245462127
ISBN9789004268289
Open LibraryOL31256672M
LanguageEN
Citations received12

In Farāmarz, the Sistāni Hero, Marjolijn van Zutphen discusses the manuscripts, storylines and main themes of the shorter and the longer Farāmarznāme (c. 1100), in relation to Ferdowsi's Shāhnāme and several other later maṡnawis about the warriors from Sistān (the Persian Epic Cycle). Farāmarz, a secondary figure of the Shāhnāme, gained importance in later epic traditions and as the invincible protagonist of both Farāmarznāmes reached a status that equalled, if not surpassed, that of his famous father Rostam. Van Zutphen further shows how Farāmarz displays parallels to the fictional figures of Garshāsp (his ancestor) and Eskandar and argues that some story elements of Farāmarz's Indian conquest may be rooted in historical events from both the Parthian and the Ghaznawid period

Art · HERO · Literature · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · civilization · Epic poetry · Epic poetry, history and criticism · Firdawsī · History and criticism · Persian Epic literature · Persian Epic poetry · Persian literature · Shāhnāmah (Firdawsī)

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