Fashioning Persian Identity: Asadi’s Staged Dispute between a Zoroastrian and a Muslim

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Persianate Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI:10.1163/18747167-bja10035

Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the earliest surviving specimens of Persian debate poetry (monāzara), a genre which deals with controversial topics such as the Persians’ supremacy over the Arabs or the superiority of Islam over Zoroastrianism. Focusing on one panegyric by the poet Asadi Tusi (1010–70), this paper contextualizes such debates in a cultural milieu of eleventh-century Persia. It shows how poets, as an indispensable part of the court hierarchy, participated in constructing a new identity for Persians by formulating a Persian standpoint on controversies of the day.

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塑造波斯人的身份:阿萨迪在琐罗亚斯德教教徒和穆斯林之间上演的争论

本文主要关注现存最早的波斯辩论诗(monāzara)，这是一种涉及争议性话题的诗歌类型，如波斯人对阿拉伯人的至高无上或伊斯兰教对琐罗亚斯德教的优越性。本文以诗人阿萨迪·图西(Asadi Tusi, 1010-70)的一首赞美诗为重点，将这些争论置于11世纪波斯的文化环境中。它展示了诗人，作为宫廷等级制度中不可或缺的一部分，是如何通过在当时的争议中形成波斯人的立场，参与构建波斯人的新身份的。

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Journal of Persianate Studies HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire. Its focus on the linguistic, cultural and historical role and influence of Persian culture and Iranian civilization in this area is based on a recognition that knowledge flows from pre-existing facts but is also constructed and thus helps shape the present reality of the Persianate world.