Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: At some point in the 17th century, coffeehouses in Esfahan and other major Iranian cities became known venues to hear professional storytellers (naqqālān). Here, popular stories from well-known epics poems like the Shāh nāmeh were recited, but other oral epics grew in popularity as well. One in particular was based on the exploits of the Safavid dynastic founder, Shah Esmāʿīl (r. 1501-24), and in this regard, Barry Wood’s publication of The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʾīl (as part of Brill’s rela...
DOI: 10.4000/bcai.413
Author: Colin Mitchell
Institution: Dalhousie University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4293166199