Persian Parables
Form as Philosophy
$112.00
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinking
In 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691269894 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691269890 |
| Author: | Hamid Dabashi |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Translation/Transnation |
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Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The World of Persian Literary Humanism, Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene, Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation, and other books.
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