Shahnama Studies II
The reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge and Gabrielle van den Berg, Leiden University (eds.)
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Biographical note
Charles Melville is Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is currently director of the Shahnama Project and president of The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA), both based in Cambridge. Recent publications include Epic of the Persian Kings. The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Barbara Brend (London, 2010).
Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D. (1997), is lecturer in Persian at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian literature, Tajik poetry, Ismailism and oral traditions of Central Asia. She is the author of Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains: A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan (Wiesbaden, 2004).
Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D. (1997), is lecturer in Persian at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian literature, Tajik poetry, Ismailism and oral traditions of Central Asia. She is the author of Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains: A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan (Wiesbaden, 2004).
Readership
All those interested in Persian literature and epic poetry, the expansion of the Persianate culture and arts of the book into neighbouring lands, and the oral transmision of legend.
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The first volume in the series Studies in Persian Cultural History is the edited volume based on the papers from the Second Shahnama round-table, held in 2003 in Cambridge and published by Charles Melville in 2006 (The Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge).
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