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- A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinking In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection.
- About the Author: Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
- 232 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature
- Series Name: Translation/Transnation
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A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinking
In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi eschews the conventional focus on the supposed moral or political allusions in these parables--the "moral of the story"--to allow the radical surfaces of their poetic disposition to reveal themselves. He turns his attention instead to what Kafka called "the fabulous yonder" as the defining moment of the parable. Focusing on a sustained course of Persian parables through the ages, Dabashi shows that the genre is not limited to masterpieces by such iconic poets as Sa'di, Rumi, Attar, and Sana'i. In fact, he argues, parabolic thinking has a much wider domain in Persian literature and philosophy and plays a distinct role within Persian and Islamic traditions. The cumulative result of these parables spread across Persian prose and poetry is an Alam al-Mithal, a parabolic world--a world of parables, similitudes, and verisimilitudes. Dabashi points to the moment in these works when life is absorbed into the formal fabric of the stories, erasing the borderline between fact and fantasy, history and story, the living and the dead, the real and the unreal--and life itself, as we live it, becomes a strange and captivating parable. With this circular self-referentiality, parables enable a way of thinking as a philosophical form.About the Author
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The World of Persian Literary Humanism, Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene, Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation, and other books.Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.12 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 232
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Comparative Literature
Series Title: Translation/Transnation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Street Date: August 25, 2026
TCIN: 1007799236
UPC: 9780691269894
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-9012
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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