Borders
Itineraries on the Edges of Iran
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abstract
This collection of essays stands as the first volume of the new Eurasiatica series entirely devoted to the vast territories of Iranian culture, understood in the widest sense possible and in an open chronological perspective. Explicitly refusing any fetishization of particularism, it contains fourteen studies organized in thematic pairs: a sequence of interrelated itineraries exploring several heterogeneous borderlands – from Avestan philology to film studies – starting from plural, competing and coexisting ideas of Iran.
Frontier • Gilan • Persian language • Indo-Persian • Kashmir • Sino-Sogdian art • Avestan • Indo-Persian poetry • Barrier • Grammaticalization • Vedic • Arabic Dialectology • Sasanians • Conversion • Fenghuang • Nuristan • Philosophy and Film • Ni’matullāhiyya • Phoenix • Defensive moat • Pre-Islamic • Abbas Kiarostami • Mughals • Keywords? • Indus • Other • Gonbad-e Kāvus • Shī‘a • Diaspora • Iranshahr • Landscape • Northern Iran • Kafiristan • Bidel • Deccan • Kalasha • Funerary architecture • Iran • Lucknow • Photography • Shi’a • Simurgh • Interfaith • Qatīl • Mockery • Talesh • Iranian Cinema • Ziyarids • Iranian Dialectology • Masnavi • Hindu Kush • Indo-Iranian • Qābūs ibn Wušmgīr • Sayyids • Iranian calendar • Religious identity • Mirrors in Movies • Bahmanī • Loanwords • Iranian Studies