A.A. Seyed-Gohrab. Courtly Riddles. Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

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Université libre de Bruxelles A.A. Seyed-Gohrab. Courtly Riddles. Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian...

Recent Work on Classical Persian Literature: A Wake-up Call

“…Seyed-Gohrab has written a number of books and articles which show that his grasp of the classical Persian idiom is, to put it mildly, inadequate. 41 Nevertheless, Korangy has extolled his achievements to the skies in a way that would be over the top even for a worthy (Orsatti 2012) and my own review (Beelaert 2008). When this book was reprinted eight years later at another university press, it was without any corrections (Beelaert 2016).…”