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 • Funerary architecture • Mughals • Iran • Kafiristan • Bahmanī • Other • Indo-Persian poetry • Ni’matullāhiyya • Loanwords • Conversion • Iranian Studies • Sino-Sogdian art • Barrier • Grammaticalization • Phoenix • Iranshahr • Mirrors in Movies • Indo-Iranian • Iranian Dialectology • Iranian calendar • Bidel • Nuristan • Qatīl • Fenghuang • Defensive moat • Qābūs ibn Wušmgīr • Simurgh • Talesh • Shī‘a • Arabic Dialectology • Diaspora • Sayyids • Shi’a • Landscape • Avestan • Kalasha • Deccan • Sasanians • Kashmir • Keywords? • Vedic • Northern Iran • Gilan • Philosophy and Film • Mockery • Photography • Interfaith • Persian language • Indo-Persian • Ziyarids • Masnavi • Abbas Kiarostami • Indus • Iranian Cinema • Pre-Islamic • Religious identity • Gonbad-e Kāvus • Lucknow • Hindu Kush