Histories Behind Verses. Shāhnāma-nivīsī in the Early Modern Persianate World

研究项目诗歌背后的历史。《现代早期波斯世界的历史史诗》旨在帮助人们更好地理解波斯历史史诗，重点关注它们通过诗歌来传播历史的方式。历史史诗，也被称为shāhnāmas（叙事诗，通常围绕当代国王或统治者的事迹），是波斯文学传统的核心元素，自世纪以来就有文献记载。从那以后，它们一直持续到世纪，在波斯世界的不同地方生产，尽管程度不同。该项目特别关注17和18世纪。尽管一些波斯史诗已经引起了研究人员的兴趣，但历史史诗至今仍在很大程度上未被探索。该项目认真对待历史史诗作为史学和文学来源，提供有关历史，社会文化，文学和政治背景的宝贵信息，他们产生。它的目的是仔细研究波斯历史史诗写作的传统，并确定表征该流派的通用标记。与此同时，历史史诗的价值（无论是由他们的作家和接受者和作为历史来源的感知）和他们的功能将（重新）评估，它将表明，任何研究波斯历史和文学不应该从此忽视历史史诗。该项目还将为研究萨法维-奥斯曼-莫卧儿之间的联系提供一个波斯语世界共有文学文化遗产的案例研究。

The research project Histories Behind Verses. Shāhnāma-nivīsī in the Early Modern Persianate World aims at contributing to a better understanding of Persian historical epics, focusing on the way they mediate history through verses.Historical epics, also known as shāhnāmas (narrative poems typically revolving around the deeds of a contemporary shah or ruler) are a core element of the Persian literary tradition and documented since the 11th century. Ever since, they have continued to be produced until the 20th century in different places all over the Persianate world, albeit in varying degrees. The project lays a special focus on the 17th and 18th centuries.Whereas a number of Persian epics have already aroused the interest of researchers, historical epics as of yet remain largely unexplored. This project takes seriously historical epics as both historiographical and literary sources offering invaluable information about the historical, socio-cultural, literary, and political context they were produced in. It aims at taking a close look at the tradition of Persian historical epic writing and at identifying generic markers that characterize the genre. At the same time, the value of historical epics (both as perceived by their writers and recipients and as historical sources) and their function will be (re)assessed and it will be shown that no study of Persian history and literature should henceforth ignore historical epics. The project will furthermore contribute a case study of the Persian-speaking world’s shared literary-cultural heritage to the study of Safavid-Ottoman-Mughal connections.