Overview
The Qesse-ye Sanjān is the sole surviving account of the emigration of Zoroastrians from Iran to India to form the Parsi (‘Persian’) community. Written in Persian couplets in India in 1599 by a Zoroastrian priest, it is a work many know of, but few have actually read, let alone studied in depth. This book provides a romanised transcription from the oldest manuscripts, an elegant metrical translation, detailed commentary and, most importantly, a radical new theory of how such a text should be “read”, i.e. not as a historical chronical but as a charter of Zoroastrian identity, foundation myth and justification of the Parsi presence in India. The book fills a lacuna that has been acutely felt for a long time.
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Author: Alan Williams ,
Alan Williams
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 124
Weight: 0.539kg
ISBN: 9789004176980
ISBN 10: 9004176985
Pages: 12
Publication Date: 24 September 2009
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Winner of an Honourable Mention at the International Society for Iranian Studies Ehsan Yarshater Book Award for books published in 2008 and 2009. please visit: href = http://iranian-studies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater >http://iranian-studies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater This excellent volume is important for understanding not only the history of the Parsees and their quest for identity in a diasporic home, but also the dynamics of history, multiculturalism, and religious contact in premodern Western India. - Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa.
Winner of an Honourable Mention at the International Society for Iranian Studies Ehsan Yarshater Book Award for books published in 2008 and 2009. Please visit:http://iranian-studies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater This excellent volume is important for understanding not only the history of the Parsees and their quest for identity in a diasporic home, but also the dynamics of history, multiculturalism, and religious contact in premodern Western India. - Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa
Winner of an Honourable Mention at the International Society for Iranian Studies Ehsan Yarshater Book Award for books published in 2008 and 2009. Please visit:http://iranian-studies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater This excellent volume is important for understanding not only the history of the Parsees and their quest for identity in a diasporic home, but also the dynamics of history, multiculturalism, and religious contact in premodern Western India. - Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa
Author Information
Alan Williams PhD (1984), in Iranian Studies, University of London, is Reader in Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on Zoroastrianism and also translated Rumi’s Masnavi into blank verse for Penguin (2006).
