Journal of Poetry Studies (boostan Adab)

Bahram Chubin, who in 588 CE served as commander of the Iranian army, defeated the Hephthalites and overcame the Turkic Khagan. Yet Hormizd IV, who had distrusted him from the ... Read More

Discursive Functions of Dialect Highlighting in Contemporary Poetry of North Khorasan Based on the Semiotics Approach (Case Study: The Poems of Duchenar and Laylaneha by Hasan Roshan)

Fatemeh Zamani; Ebrahim Kanani

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 19-40

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.50839.4550

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Linguistic highlighting, in various lexical, syntactic, temporal, dialectal, and semantic forms, plays a central role in literary creations. In the eco-poems, the poet's references ... Read More Linguistic highlighting, in various lexical, syntactic, temporal, dialectal, and semantic forms, plays a central role in literary creations. In the eco-poems, the poet's references to cultural, environmental, and ecological components lead to an increasing frequency of local words, resulting in dialectal highlighting. This research, employing a qualitative semiotics approach, examines the discursive functions of dialectal highlighting in contemporary poetry from North Khorasan. For this purpose, two collections of poetry, Dochenar and Laylanah (song selections) by Hassan Roshan (d. 1976), have been selected, in which a total of 328 local and dialectal words are used in Dochenar and Laylanah. These words are mainly centered around local names of places, food, clothing, and games, which activate multiple functions at the levels of discourse. From the perspective of the emotional function of discourse, these words express the poet's attachment to his birthplace and, on a cognitive level, help to represent his social and cultural identity. This creates an incremental structure in the tense syntax of the discourse that deepens the lived experience of the audience. In the sensory-perceptual dimension, the purposeful use of dialectal words, in a phenomenological way, causes a "presentation of the absent." By activating the subject's five senses in the process of receiving meaning, this presence transforms native objects into a "cultural icon" and, in a nostalgic atmosphere, evokes deep feelings such as pride, strength, and happiness in the speaker and the audience. This sensory-perceptual dynamic, beyond a simple representation, leads to the creation of a unique aesthetic experience. In this experience, local vocabulary, by creating a time of “aesthetic presence,” causes the speaker to break away from the objective world and connect with the inner world. The result of this process is the production of creative poetic meaning and images, and it expresses the poet’s unique “discursive subjectivity.

An Investigation of the Extent and Manner of the Narrator’s Presence in the Story of “Rostam and Sohrab” in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh

Mohammad Reza Salehi Mazandarani; Zahra Nasirishiraz; Ghodrat Ghasemipour; Nasim Maraghi

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 41-65

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.53312.4648

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The narrator is one of the oldest elements of literature, with a history as long as human culture itself. In ancient narrative traditions, the narrator was not merely a literary ... Read More

New Findings about the Works of Noqtaviyan Based on the Newly Discovered Biography and Poems of Amri Shirazi

Hamidreza Fahandezhsaadi

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 65-80

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.53096.4637

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Noqtaviyah is a branch of the Hurufiyah movement, founded by Mahmud Pasikhani (died 1427 AD) In the 15th century AD. This is why the followers of this movement are sometimes called ... Read More Noqtaviyah is a branch of the Hurufiyah movement, founded by Mahmud Pasikhani (died 1427 AD) In the 15th century AD. This is why the followers of this movement are sometimes called Pasikhaniyan and sometimes Mahmudian. Mahmud Pasikhani himself was initially a follower of Fazlullah Na’imi Astarabadi (died 1393 AD), the founder of the Hurufiyah, who was later rejected by Na’imi due to his excessive materialistic beliefs. The beliefs of the Noqtaviyah include materialistic-reincarnation ideas, elements of ancient Iranian, and tendencies of chauvinism and blasphemy (from the point of view of the refutationists). The aforementioned group lived in secret for about a century and in that state they devoted themselves to propagating their teachings, and as can be seen from a number of sources, they had connections with the remnants of the Ismailis in the 16th century AD. Noqtaviyan were persecuted and searched many times from the second half of the sixteenth century until they were severely suppressed and massacred in several stages, especially in the years (1574 and 1585 AD). In the meantime, many scholars and preachers of the Noqtaviyah were also destroyed, as were their works. Abul-Qasim Muhammad Amri Shirazi is one of the extraordinary and at the same time one of the most controversial figures of the Noqtaviyah movement in the sixteenth century. As the chroniclers have written, Amri was an unparalleled figure in the sciences of the occult, numbers and mysteries, and therefore in a short period of time, many people gathered around him. Due to the dissemination of his ideas, which were considered atheistic by the rulers and people of his time, he first became blind in the year (1565 AD) and finally was murdered in the year (1590 AD) while he had repeatedly insisted on his monotheistic faith and renounced the propagation of the religion of Mahmud Pasikhani. Apparently, Amri Shirazi had many works of poetry, most of which have been lost today. In this article, a large number of poems by Amri Shirazi are discovered and introduced from manuscripts and lesser-known sources.

An Analysis of Literary Imitations of the Most Important Persian Poetic Texts

Ahmad Goli; Yadollah Nasrollahi; Fereshteh Ahikhteh

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 81-100

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.51531.4579

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The tradition of nazirehguei (poetic imitation or model-based composition) in Persian literature is recognized as a creative method for reimagining classical texts. This literary practice ... Read More

Examining the Influence of the Works of Nezami Ganjavi, with an Emphasis on Haft Peykar and Khosrow and Shirin, on the Folk-tale Koroğlu

Mohammad Hossien Nikdarasl; Foroud Abdolahi

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 101-118

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.53133.4640

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Nezami Ganjavi, one of the most distinguished narrative poets of the Persian literature in the 6th century AH, immortalized profound themes such as the conflict between good and ... Read More

Piran of Turan and Gudarz of Iran: A Comparative Study of Two Symbols of Wisdom in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Based on Jung’s Archetype of the Wise Old Man

Abdollah Vaceghabbasi; Shahryar Shahraki; Jalaloddin Gorgij

Volume 18, Issue 2 , September 2026, Pages 119-136

https://doi.org/10.22099/jba.2025.53884.4670

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Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh is more than a heroic epic; it is a multilayered work that reflects psychological, philosophical, and ethical concepts within its mythological and historical ... Read More

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The Transformation of the Narratives of Bahram Chubin: Reflections of Diverse Perspectives in Ancient Sources and the Shahnameh

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Discursive Functions of Dialect Highlighting in Contemporary Poetry of North Khorasan Based on the Semiotics Approach (Case Study: The Poems of Duchenar and Laylaneha by Hasan Roshan)

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An Investigation of the Extent and Manner of the Narrator’s Presence in the Story of “Rostam and Sohrab” in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh

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New Findings about the Works of Noqtaviyan Based on the Newly Discovered Biography and Poems of Amri Shirazi

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An Analysis of Literary Imitations of the Most Important Persian Poetic Texts

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Examining the Influence of the Works of Nezami Ganjavi, with an Emphasis on Haft Peykar and Khosrow and Shirin, on the Folk-tale Koroğlu

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Piran of Turan and Gudarz of Iran: A Comparative Study of Two Symbols of Wisdom in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Based on Jung’s Archetype of the Wise Old Man

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