Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts

Gholami, Saloumeh

doi:10.1080/00210862.2017.1378070

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“…The designation term Behdīnī/Behdīnān is used by Windfuhr (1989), Sorūšīyān (1978), Fīrūzbaḫš (2000) and Mazdāpūr (1995, 2006). The term Zoroastrian Darī/Darī appears in the writings of Rehatsek (1837), Justi (1881), Huart (1888), Vinogradova and Pirejko (1989), Farudi and Toosarvandani (2004), Molchanova (2008), Stewart (2016), Gholami and Farahmand (2016), and Gholami (2016, 2018, 2021). Finally, the general term Yazdī is used by Bailey (1936) and Justi (1881), while Iranian scholar Kešāvarz (1993a, 1993b) chooses Guyeš-e Zartoštīyān-e Yazd , and Šakibā prefers Lahğe-ye Zartoštīyān (1948).…”

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On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language

Gholami

2022

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper* examines how Zoroastrians designate themselves (internal/self-designations), and how they are designated by others (external designations). Focusing on the term Gabr/Gavr as the external denotation for Zoroastrians and the term Gabrī/Gavrūnī as the designation for their language, it argues that these terms, once common in Western scholarship as well as among non-Zoroastrian Iranians, have become obsolete due to their pejorative undertones. However, they have recently been revived by some scholars, who justify such use with reference to the alleged etymology of Gabr as meaning “man” and by the fact that even some Zoroastrians use Gavr/Gavrūn and Gavrī/Gavrūnī as an internal designation for themselves and their language. This paper critically examines these views and argues that neither the etymology nor the internal self-designation justifies the use of these terms and proposes the term Zoroastrian Darī as the more appropriate designation of the language of the Zoroastrians of Iran.

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On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language

Gholami

2022

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd

Gholami

Pouladi

2019

Iranian Studies

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About 150 years ago, after Avestan researchers such as Jackson, Browne, and Westergaard had unsuccessfully attempted to discover new manuscripts in Iran, it was assumed that there were few or no Avestan manuscripts remaining in Iran. However, recent research and fieldwork in Iran have resulted in important findings disproving this assumption. Since 2011, more than eighty-five Avestan manuscripts have been discovered in Iran. One of these important discoveries has been Pouladi’s Collection, which was found in February 2016 in a Zoroastrian house in the Priests’ Quarter (Mahalle-ye Dastūrān) in Yazd. This article deals with the secondary life of Avestan manuscripts of Pouladi’s Collection, focusing on colophons and marginal notes.The article makes available a collection of Middle Persian and New Persian colophons and marginal notes, all which have been excerpted, transcribed, and translated for the first time from the Avestan manuscripts of Pouladi’s Collection, copied mostly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based on different types of colophons, this contribution establishes a classification of colophons and marginal notes of this collection with regard to formal, contextual, and functional characteristics.

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A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)

Karami,

Gholami

2023

Iran Cauc.

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This paper examines alignment in Literary Gorani by analysing an unknown Gorani manuscript titled ‘Dīwān-i Mawlawī’ (Manuscript 11092), which is housed at the Āstān-e Qods-e Raḍavī library. The paper has two main objectives. Following Haig (2017) regarding the extent of the micro-variation of ergativity within Iranian languages, the paper explores strategies of interrelated subsystems such as case, indexation, verbal suffixes, and pronominal clitic systems to discover whether Gorani manifests an accusative or an ergative pattern. This helps us to answer the second more general question in this study: is it even possible to consider Literary Gorani as a written form of Hawrami?

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Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the Colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan Manuscripts

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On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language

On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language

Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd

A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)

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