Iran Namag: A Bilingual Quarterly of Iranian Studies Volume 7, Number 3, Fall 2024 Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Sohrab Sepehri Special Issue Guest Editors: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari English Verso Sohrab Sepehri Special Issue: Foreword Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari Sohrab Sepehri, a Universal Poet: An Introduction to His Life and Works Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Sohrab […]
Foreword: Sohrab Sepehri Special Issue Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi University of Chicago Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari University of Tehran This special issue of Iran Namag focuses on one of the most celebrated poets and painters of twentieth-century Iran, Sohrab Sepehri. The four articles in English and six in Persian are written by scholars from Iran, Afghanistan, Europe, and North […]
Sohrab Sepehri, a Universal Poet: An Introduction to His Life and Works Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi University of Chicago Introduction Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) is one of the best known and most beloved poets of contemporary Iran, celebrated also for his work as a modernist painter. Although a number of studies in Iran have been devoted to his […]
Sohrab Sepehri as a Mythical Character in Shahrnush Parsipur’s Blue Logos R. Ghanoonparvar University of Texas Austin Shahrnush Parsipur’s monumental novel ‘Aql-i Abi (translated into English as Blue Logos), published in 1994, can be described as a compendium of allusions in which the author utilizes and makes reference to the art, literature, philosophy, history, and […]
Ecotheology of Sohrab Sepehri: Consciousness on the Edge of Water Bahar Davary University of San Diego Introduction In the context of discussing the poet Hafez, Hossein Ziai wrote: “Persian poetic wisdom (hikmat-i sha’iranah) is thought to continue the divine revelation by constructing a metalanguage of metaphor, allegory and symbol that transcends periods of historical time ….”[1] […]
Transformation of a Concept: Death from “Resting Place of Love” to “Beauty’s Solitude” Zhinia Noorian Utrecht University Introduction[1] Sohrab Sepehri is celebrated as a creator of images and metaphors that catch his audiences off guard. With his novel poems, Sepehri encourages his readers to look at common happenings and concepts afresh.[2] One of the concepts […]
