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Political Authority and Tragedy in the Shahnameh: A Study of the Shahnameh on the Basis of Hegel’s Theory of Tragedy(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

نویسنده:

کلیدواژه‌ها: Shahnameh Tragedy Political authority Rostam

حوزه‌های تخصصی:
تعداد بازدید : ۲۵۶ تعداد دانلود : ۲۳۴
The paper aims to study the Shahnameh on the basis of Hegel’s theory of tragedy. For Hegel, political authority was closely related to tragedy and the two formed a unique worldview that helps us understand Greek society and polity in a new way. It is hoped that by studying the Shahnameh on this basis, we may be able to come to a better understating of Iranian society and polity.
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Rostam’s Fight with the White Dīv in the Context of the Primeval Myth of the “Rain Shaman”. Theory of Polish Researcher Maria Składankowa(مقاله علمی وزارت علوم)

نویسنده:

کلیدواژه‌ها: Firdowsī Šāh-nāma Rostam White Dīv Myth Rain Shaman

حوزه‌های تخصصی:
تعداد بازدید : ۱۱۸ تعداد دانلود : ۱۰۲
In the 1980s, Polish researcher Maria Składankowa promoted in her publications a theory stating that the representatives of the Sistani family described in Ferdowsī's Šāh-nāma were reflections of the rainy and sunny steppe shamans. The four main representatives of this lineage were said to alternately represent these particular shamans beginning with the primordial and rainy shaman personified by Sam and ending with the solar shaman in the form of Sohrab. Another rain shaman according to Składankowa was to be Rostam. This article aims to introduce Składankowa's theory to the international research community and to subject it to verification. The battle between Rostam and White Dīv, which was the seventh trial in Rostam's cycle of seven trials, was used for verification. This is a clash between two national heroes and the circumstances of this battle blur the boundaries between what is commonly understood as good and as evil. Thus, this is an example that perfectly demonstrates Składankowa's theory of rejecting religious notions of good and evil and focusing on the primeval connection between man and nature when it was man's greatest ally and enemy. Neither Rostam nor White Dīv, according to Składankowa's theory, are therefore completely good or completely evil, like any element of nature, which can be a life-giving or destructive force. Identified with good forces, the sun warms the earth and causes vegetation but can also cause drought and the death that follows. Identified with evil forces, rain can cause floods, but without it, vegetation will die. There is no absolute good or absolute evil in nature. Nor is there one in the battling Rostam and White Dīv. Ferdusī's description of this combat in Šāh-nāma clearly goes back to this primeval myth leaving the story universal.