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