Questions tagged [persian-language]
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English translation of a quatrain from the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam
Is there an English equivalent of this quatrain from the Russian version of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?
В этом мире глупцов, подлецов, торгашей
Уши, мудрый, заткни, рот надежно зашей,
Веки плотно ...
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Rumi quotation on how dancing is not painless
Please help me to find where Rumi says that:
Dancing is not getting up painlessly like a speck of dust blown
around in the wind.
Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to
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Retrieving Beckman (1982) rendering of the Zoroastrian Avesta
I'm currently reading Drakon by Ogden which is a monograph on serpent cults and mythological accounts of serpent-related happenings in ancient Greece. In the introduction, Ogden briefly overviews ...
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When and where was the Shahnameh printed for the first time?
According to the Wikipedia article about the Shahnameh, the Persian poet Ferdowsi wrote this epic "for Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni between c. 977 and 1010 CE". This was long before the ...
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How long has the Shahnameh been considered the national epic of Greater Iran?
According to the Wikipedia article about the Shahnameh, this work by the Persian poet Ferdowsi "is the national epic of Greater Iran". The article adds that
Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, ...
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Meaning of "with no why to how it keeps its mystery"
What is the meaning of the following quote from Rumi? I was reading his The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing and came across this quote:
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in ...
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What is the Persian story that Rabindranath Tagore summarises in a letter from June 1894?
In Glimpses of Bengal, a selection of Rabindranath Tagore's letters included in The Definitive Tagore (Rupa Publications, 2017), Tagore summarises the following story (letter from 24 June 1894):
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What is a Pehliva?
The word "Pehliva" is used several times in the third part of the Shahnameh (Helen Zimmern translation), particularly to refer to Sam/Saum, apparently a ruler in Seistan (which I thought ...
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What is "the seventh sphere"?
In the second part (Helen Zimmern's translation) of the Shahnameh, the youngest son Irij is killed by his brothers, who send his head back to their father Feridoun:
Now when they were come to the ...
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Significance of the names Silim, Tur, and Irij for the sons of Feridoun?
In the second book of the Shahnameh, King Feridoun tests his three sons by appearing to them as a dragon. The eldest son runs away, the middle one takes up arms against the monster, and the youngest ...
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What do the cypress, rose, and wild herb symbolise in this description of Feridoun's rule?
From the second part of the Shahnameh:
Five hundred years did Feridoun rule the world, and might and virtue increased in the land, and all his days he did that which was good. And he roamed ...
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Which parts of the Shahnameh were the original work of Ferdowsi?
The word Shahnameh usually refers to the Persian epic poem written by Ferdowsi in 977-1010 CE, although this versification was mostly a rewriting of existing mythological and historical stories of the ...
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Earliest known manuscripts of the Shahnameh?
The classical Persian epic poem the Shahnameh was written over a millennium ago, 977-1010 CE, compiled in verse form from traditional mythology and history by the poet Ferdowsi. Wikipedia tells us ...
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Which part of the Shahnameh is the work of Daqiqi?
The classical Persian epic poem the Shahnameh (a compilation and retelling of previous mythological and historical Persian literature) is mostly credited to Ferdowsi, who spent over thirty years (977-...
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How could Zohak's advisors deduce the name Feridoun from his dream?
In the first part of the Shahnameh, "The Shahs of Old", the Deev-influenced king Zohak has a dream in which he foresees his own downfall at the hands of Feridoun and his cow-headed mace:
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