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

研究项目“诗背后的历史”。Shāhnāma-nivīsī在早期现代波斯世界旨在帮助更好地理解波斯历史史诗，重点关注他们通过诗句调解历史的方式。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展开）是波斯文学传统的核心元素，自11世纪以来就有文献记载。从那以后，它们一直持续生产，直到20世纪，在波斯世界的不同地方，尽管程度不同。该项目特别关注17世纪和18世纪。尽管许多波斯史诗已经引起了研究人员的兴趣，但历史史诗在很大程度上仍未被探索。这个项目认真地把历史史诗作为史学和文学的来源，提供关于它们产生的历史、社会文化、文学和政治背景的宝贵信息。它的目的是仔细研究波斯历史史诗写作的传统，并确定这种类型的一般标记。与此同时，历史史诗的价值（无论是作者和接受者所感知的，还是作为历史来源的）及其功能将被（重新）评估，并将表明，从今以后，任何波斯历史和文学研究都不应忽视历史史诗。该项目将进一步为研究萨法维-奥斯曼-莫卧儿王朝的联系提供一个关于波斯语世界共同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.