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Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings Of The Shahnama Millenary Seminar, The K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011 Edited by Sunil Sharma and Burzine Waghmar

Table of Contents

Foreword

Firdawsi: a Scholium Burzine Waghmar and Sunil Sharma

  1. The Shahnama Manuscript Tradition: The Next 1000 Years? By Charles Melville
  2. Parthian Heritage–Persian Culture: How the Shahnama became the Persian ‘national’ epic by Albert de Jong
  3. Ahriman and diws in the Shahnama by Kolsoum Ghazanfari
  4. Alexander in the Shahnama by Syed Akhtar Husain
  5. The Rise of the Simurgh in the Shahnama by S. A. Hasan
  6. The Legend of Sudaba or the Legend of Zulaykha? By Firuza Abdullaeva
  7. The Shahnama Cycle and the Digenes Akritas epic novel by Evangelos Venetis
  8. Some Rare Shahnama Manuscripts Preserved at Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna by Imtiaz Ahmad
  9. The Production of Mughal Shahnamas: Imperial, Sub-Imperial and Provincial manuscripts by Sunil Sharma
  10. Influence of Firdawsi’s Shahnama on Nizami’s PanjGanj by Sabar Havewalla
  11. A Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama by Burzine Waghmar