"The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function. Contributors are: Frantz Grenet, Jo-Ann Gross, Charles G. Häberl, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Reuven Kiperwasser, Ulrich Marzolph, Margaret A. Mills, Ravshan Rahmoni, Karl Reichl, Julia Rubanovich, Shaul Shaked, Raya Shani, Dan Y. Shapira, Maria E. Subtelny, Gabrielle R. van den Berg, Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Naama Vilozny, Mohsen Zakeri, and Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur"--Provided by publisher.

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Edited by Julia Rubanovich

Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2015

10.1163/9789004291973, 2015 may 13

XX, 445 Pp., Index ed., 2015

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: New perspectives on orality in Iranian studies / Julia Rubanovich
Part 1. Approaching orality
Memory and textuality in the orality-literacy continuum / Karl Reichl
Orality and esotericism : reflections on modes of transmission in late antiquity / Shaul Shaked
Part 2. Sacred traditions and oral history
Irano-Talmudica III : giant mythological creatures in transition from the Avesta to the Babylonian Talmud / Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira
The Islamic ascension narrative in the context of conversion in medieval Iran : an apocalypse at the intersection of orality and textuality / Maria E. Subtelny
The motif of the cave and the funerary narratives of Nāṣir-i Khusrau / Jo-Ann Gross
Part 3. Iranian epic tradition
"The ground well trodden but the Shah not found..." : orality and textuality in the Book of Kings and the Zoroastrian mythoepic tradition / Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina
"The Book of the Black Demon," or Shabrang-nama, and the black demon in oral tradition / Gabrielle R. van den Berg
Why so many stories? : untangling the versions of Iskandar's birth and upbringing / Julia Rubanovich
Some comments on the probable sources of ibn Ḥusām's Khavaran-nama and the oral transmission of epic materials / Raya Shani
Professional storytelling (naqqali) in Qajar Iran / Ulrich Marzolph
Part 4. Oral and literary traditions as channels of cultural transformation
The literary use of proverbs and myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau's Divan / Mohsen Zakeri
Classical poetry as cultural capital in the proverbs of Jews from Iran : transformations of intertextuality / Galit Hasan-Rokem
Gashtak : oral/literary intertextuality, performance and identity in contemporary Tajikistan / Margaret Mills and Ravshan Rahmoni
The Tale of the Old Woman on the Mountain : Jewish folktale from Afghanistan / Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur
Part 5. Performative aspects of orality in visual artefacts
Aramaic incantation texts between orality and textuality / Charles G. Haberl
Between demons and kings : the art of Babylonian incantation bowls / Naama Vilozny
Between written texts, oral performances and mural paintings : illustrated scrolls in pre-Islamic Central Asia / Frantz Grenet.

The Orality And Textuality In The Iranian World Provides Important Evidence Of Textual Culture's Intimate, Extensive, And Ongoing Interaction With The Realm Of Orality, Mapping Out New Areas And Foci Of Research In Iranian Studies.

2025-11-09