Table of Contents

* Preface * Introduction * Akhavan's "Ending of the Shahnameh": A Critique * The Dispute of "the Old and the New" in Persian Poetry * Review Article on Az Saba ta Nima by Yahya aryanpur * Myth and Legend as a Key to Reality and Vision in the Works of Mehdi Akhavan Sales * Poet and Revolution: The Impact of Iran's Constitutional Revolution on the Social and Literary Outlook of the Poets of the Time * On the Image of Jesus in Modern Persian Poetry * The Sacred Sites of the Iranian Jews Translated from Hebrew by Raya Shani and Ruth Stronach * Islamization of the Iranian National Hero Rostam as Reflected in Persian Folktales * The Iranian Heritage in the Eyes of the Poet Mehdi Akhavan Sales * Jews in Islamic Iran * Shira-ye Hatani: A Judeo-Persian Wedding Song * Sur-e Esrafil, 1907-1908: Social and Political Ideology * Folk Poetry and Society in Nineteenth-Century Iran * Judeo-Persian Religious Oath Formulas as Compared with Non-Jewish Iranian Traditions * The Concept of Jewish Impurity and its Reflection in Persian and Judeo-Persian Traditions * Mirza aqa Khan Kermani and the Jewish Question * The Sofreh of Elijah the Prophet: A Pre-Islamic Iranian Ritual? * Iranian Intellectuals' Attitudes towards Jews and Judaism Completed by Jaleh Pirnazar * Bibliography of Sorour S. Soroudi's works

About the Author

H. E. Chehabi is Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University.