The philological and historical linguistic study of the medieval Iranian Fahlawī and Āẕarī poetry (12-16 cent. CE)

众所周知，从公元10世纪起，中世纪的伊朗就存在着丰富多样的各种方言的书面文学传统。在久负盛名的波斯古典文学的阴影下，这些传统在许多世纪以来显示出巨大的生命力，例如塔巴里(10-17美分)。在Mā赞达尔ān，或旧设拉子(13-16美分)，其中也有设拉子诗人Saʿdī和Ḥāfeẓ写了一些诗句。另一个重要的传统是法拉夫īyāt诗歌(12-16美分)，用法拉夫ī语言写成，在一大片被称为“法拉”的地区盛开，从西伊朗(哈马德ān)到伊朗中部(伊斯法罕)，一直到伊朗西北部(Tabrīz)。这一传统很可能要追溯到伊斯兰之前的史诗和抒情传统，这些传统被称为“Pahlawī”，并随着时间的推移发展成了超地区标准的文学。在地理上，法拉地区与古老的阿扎拜扬地区重叠，在那里，ẕarī同时被用作一种语言和文学语言。由于FahLawī和ẕarī的文学传统相互影响，特别是在他们的后期，他们应该被一起研究。就像大多数前现代伊朗方言文学传统一样，Fahlawī和ẕarī诗歌一直被伊朗人忽视，到目前为止更是被国际学术界忽视。有一些零星的小型出版物，大多是单一文本，其中大多数是用波斯语写的。已知的Fahlawī和ẕarī手稿的数量在过去20年中有了相当大的增长，现在包含了远远超过700节的诗句(其中600多句是在Fahlawī中)。在此语料库的基础上，对这两种文学传统进行新的描述和分析是可能的。所有已知的诗句将被编辑，翻译成英语，并进行语言评论；这两个子语料库的语言形式将从历史方言学的角度进行描述和分析。这样的作品可以让人们接触到几乎已经灭绝的重要的中世纪诗歌传统，并将成为历史上西伊朗方言学期待已久的愿望。对这两种语言形式的描述和分析将有助于更好地了解与Fahlawī和ẕarī相关的现代伊朗语言的史前，如中伊朗方言(~Fahlawī)或Tātī和Tālešī(~ẕarī)。这也可能有助于填补我们对西伊朗从中古波斯和帕提亚到当代语言和方言发展的一个空白。

A rich diversity of written literary traditions in various dialects is known to have existed in medieval Iran from the 10th century CE onwards. In the shadow of the prestigious Classical Persian literature, these traditions showed a great vitality over many centuries, e.g. Tabari (10-17 cent.) in Māzandarān, or the Old Shirazi (13-16 cent.), in which also the Shirazi poets Saʿdī and Ḥāfeẓ wrote some verses. Another important tradition is that of the Fahlawīyāt poetry (12-16 cent.), composed in the Fahlawī language, that blossomed in a large area called "Fahla", reaching from West Iran (Hamadān) to Central Iran (Isfahan) and up to North West Iran (Tabrīz). This tradition likely goes back to pre-Islamic epic and lyric traditions that were called "Pahlawī", and that were developed to a supra-regional standard literature in the course of time. Geographically, the Fahla region overlaps with the ancient region of Azarbaijan, where Āẕarī was used as a spoken and literary language during the same time. Since the Fahlawī and Āẕarī literary traditions influenced each other, especially in their late stages, they should be studied together. As it is true for most pre-modern dialectal Iranian literary traditions, the Fahlawī and Āẕarī poetry have been neglected by Iranian, and even more by international scholarship so far. There is a number of scattered small publications, mostly on single texts, most of them written in Persian. The number of known Fahlawī and Āẕarī manuscripts has increased considerably in the last 20 years, and contains well over verses 700 now (over 600 of which are in Fahlawī). On the basis of this corpus, it is possible to give a new account and analysis of both literary traditions. All the known verses will be edited, translated into English, and commented philologically; the linguistic form of both subcorpora will be described and analyzed in terms of historical dialectology. Such a work can make accessible an almost extinct, important mediaeval poetic tradition, and will be a long-awaited desideratum of historical West Iranian dialectology. The description and analysis of both linguistic forms will help understand better the pre-history of those modern Iranian languages that are related to Fahlawī and Āẕarī, like the Central Iranian dialects (~ Fahlawī), or Tātī and Tālešī (~ Āẕarī). This may also serve to fill a gap in our understanding of the development of West Iranian from Middle Persian and Parthian up to contemporary languages and dialects.