Name: Persian Parables. Form as Philosophy (en Inglés)
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Author: Hamid Dabashi

portada Persian Parables. Form as Philosophy (en Inglés)

Persian Parables. Form as Philosophy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

Hamid Dabashi

Colección

Translation/Transnation

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.5x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9780691269887

Persian Parables. Form as Philosophy (en Inglés)

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A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn 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.