Vol. 27, No. 4, Fall 2012

Table of Contents

Remembrance

A Self-Made Man
Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani-Parizi
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Variorum

Fakhr-al-Dowleh Amini: The Woman and the Legend
Nasser Mohajer
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The Role of Sectarian Tensions in Shaping the Institution of Marja’-i Taqlid
Ahmad Kazemi-Moussavi
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Translations of the Bible into Persian up to the Twentieth Century

Majid Gholami-Jalise
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Persian Printing and Persian Purism in the Indian Subcontinent in the Nineteenth Century
Mehrdad Ramezannia
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Abdu´l-Bahá on Colonialism, Nationalism, and Jewish Immigration to Palestine
Kamran Ekbal
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Hafez and Modernism
Reza Ghanadan
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Articles

Introduction: Love and Sexuality in Classical Persian Literature

Kamran Talattof
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Genealogy of Love
Farzaneh Yusof-Qanbari
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Sexual Relationships in Sassanian Texts
Maryam Dezhamkhooy
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Catamite in Ancient Iran
Sirus Shamisa
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Love Poetry as Fiction: Characteristics and Scopes
Hasan Zolfagari
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Gender and Sexual Organs: An Exploration of Iraj Mirza’s ‘Arif Namah and Hajviyat
Ana Ghoreishian
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Majnun and Other Characters in Udhrite Love Poetry
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
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The Textual and the Extratextual in Nezami’s Five Treasures
Ghahreman Shiri
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On Love Fables and Love Poetry
Mohammad Jafari-Qanavati
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The Subject of Transformation and the Transformation of the Subject in Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Masnavi
Mahdi Tourage
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Nizami’s Unlikely Heroines: Characterizations of Women in Classical Persian Literature
Kamran Talattof
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Book Review

Jerry W. Wright, Everett K. Rowson: Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature
Pouye Khoshkhoo Sani
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Muniru Ravanipur: Ahl-i Gharq
Roya Khoshnevis Ansari
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