Khargāh and Other Terms for Tents in Firdawsī’s Shāh-nāmah
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979482 |
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| Authors | David Durand-Guedy, David Durand‐Guédy (0000-0002-2849-9099, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 819-849 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2018.1528866 |
| OpenAlex | W2899427259 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article aims to contribute to the wider debate on the historicity of the Shāh-nāmah by focusing on the way Firdawsī uses the word khargāh . The word, which is first attested in Rūdakī poetry, has not been dealt with adequately in previous scholarship dedicated to the Shāh-nāmah . An analysis of all the occurrences in the text provides results consistent with those obtained from contemporary sources: the khargāh appeared in Central Asia (here, Tūrān); it was the standard dwelling of Turkic-speaking pastoral nomads (here, Tūrānians), whatever their social rank; and it was adopted later as a status symbol by non-Turkish elites (here, during Kay-Khusraw’s reign). In Firdawsī’s Shāh-nāmah khargāh should therefore also be understood as the type of framed tent known as “trellis tent” (the so-called yurt)
Ancient history · Art · Central asia · Historicity (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Reign · Scholarship · Symbol (formal · Theology · Turkish · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Law · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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