Fashioning Persian Identity: Asadi’s Staged Dispute between a Zoroastrian and a Muslim

This paper focuses on the earliest surviving specimens of Persian debate poetry (monāzara), a genre which deals with controversial topics such as the Persians’ supremacy over the Arabs or the superiority of Islam over Zoroastrianism. Focusing on one panegyric by the poet Asadi Tusi (1010–70), this p...

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Main Author: Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Journal of Persianate studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-24
Further subjects:B Persians
B Islam
B interreligious polemics
B Arabs
B Zoroastrianism
B monāzara
B Persian poetry
B Shoʿubiyya movement
B Conversion
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