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Ghanoonparvar Behrad Aghaei Iranian Languages and Culture Essays in Honor of Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr $ 45.00 2012: xii+238,6 x 9,illus.,charts,maps,notes. ISBN:1-56859-284-1; ISBN 13: 978-1568592848(softcover). Specifications are subject to change without notice. Description For more than four decades, Professor Gernot Ludwig Windfuhr has been a pillar of Iranian Studies in the United States. His extensive publications in several fields and the number of scholars he has trained alone attest to his highly-regarded status and contributions to Iranian Studies. Upon his retirement in 2009 from the College of Literature, Science, and Arts, he was named Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies by the Regents of the University of Michigan. This volume is a collection of writings celebrating Professor Gernot Windfuhr's many years of teaching and scholarship in the field of Iranian Studies. The articles in this book by scholars in various fields, including those by his former students, are indicative of the diversity, breadth, and depth of Professor Winfuhr's research and publication. The essays range from studies of ancient to modern languages, literature, linguistics, and religion, as well as translation and language pedagogy. Table of Contents Publisher's Note. Editors' Foreword. An Irate Goddess (CTH 710). Gary Beckman Zoroastrians as a Socioreligious Minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Jamsheed K. Choksy Herodotus on Drinking Wine in the Achaemenid World: Greek and Persian Perceptions. Touraj Daryaee The Contributions of Nasir-i Khusrau and Language & Literature

Nasi al-Din Tusi to Shi'ite Theology. Iraj Bashiri Commerce and Migration in Arabia before Islam: A Brief History of a Long Literary Tradition. Michael Bonner The Aesthetics of Lone Moments in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad. by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami Translating Taghi Modarressis Writing with an Accent. Nasrin Rahimieh Iranian Films as Cultural Texts for Persian Language Instruction. M. R. Ghanoonparvar Intersection Zones, Overlapping Isoglosses, and Fade-out/Fade-in Phenomena in Central Iran. Donald L. Stilo Case Attraction in Persian Relative Clauses. Behrad Aghaei Iranian Languages in Linguistic Areas of Central Asia. Leila R. Dodykhudoeva and Vladimir Ivanov Non-canonical Subjects in Balochi. Carina Jahani, Serge Axenov, Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz, and Maryam Nourzaei About the Contributors. Contributors Behrad Aghaei holds a doctorate degree in Theoretical Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. At present, he is a lecturer of Persian language in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to teaching Persian language from elementary to advanced levels, he conducts research on Persian syntax and morphology. His recent publication includes a co-authored paper, "Criteria for the Selection of Persian Texts," with Professor Gernot Windfuhr. He is also the co-author of Persian Listening with R. Saraf, M.C. Hillmann and A. A. Pejman Aryan, published by Dunwoody Press in 2008. Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz is a researcher in Iranian languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also a lecturer of Old and Middle Iranian languages and culture at the Department of Archaeology, University of

Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran. His Ph.D. thesis, which he defended at Uppsala University in 2010, is a study of discourse features in Balochi oral narration. He has also published a number of articles on the Balochi language and its oral literature, and tries to use an interdisciplinary approach in his linguistic, literary, and archaeological studies. The focus of his current research is documentation and analysis of Bashkardi, an endangered Iranian language, and Brahui, a Dravidian language. He is also collecting and editing Balochi folktales from Iranian and Afghan Sistan. Iraj Bashiri is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He received his BA in English Literature from Pahalvi University in Shiraz, Iran, in 1963 and his MA degree in Linguistics (1968), and PhD in Iranian Linguistics (1972) from the University of Michigan. Bashiri's research deals with the history, languages, literatures, and culture of the Iranian peoples. The major foci of his studies are Islamic intellectual history, identity, Islam, Communism, Westernization, and Sovietization. Bashiri was the IREX Resident Scholar in Tajikistan in 1993-94. He is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in History and Culture from Tajikistan State University Named after Lenin (1996), and is an Honorary International Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan (1997). Bashiri's contributions include The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, 1984; Firdowsi's Shahname: 1000 Years After, 1994; The Samanids and the Revival of the Civilization of the Iranian Peoples, 1998; Prominent Tajik Figures of the 20th Century, 1999; The Impact of Egypt on Ancient Iran, 2007; The Ishraqi Philosophy of Jalal al-Din Rumi, 2008; Turk and Tur in Firdowsi's Shahname, 2010; and Ancient Iran: Cosmology, Mythology, History, 2012. Currently, he is working on Mulla Sadra Shirazi and Shi'ite Orthodoxy. Gary Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is Past President of the American Oriental Society and Associate Editor of the Societys Journal. He has published widely on Hittite social organization and diplomacy and on Hittite religion. The focus of his current research is the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by the Hittites. He is completing an edition of the tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh recovered from the site of the Hittite capital, Hattusa. Michael Bonner is Chair and Professor of Medieval Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He served as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in 1997-2000 and 2001-03. Professor Bonner received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 1987, and taught at Cornell before going to Michigan. He has been a Stern Fellow at the Michigan Institute for the Humanities, and has twice been Professeur Invit at the Institut dEtudes de lIslam et des Socits du Monde Musulman, cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He has also been Visiting Chair at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. Professor Bonners research has focused on jihad, especially in the premodern era; the early medieval Arab-Byzantine frontier, and Islamic frontiers in comparative perspective; poverty in Islam; and markets and trade in pre-Islamic Arabia and the Caliphate. His recent publications include Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (co-edited, SUNY Press, 2003); Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practices (Princeton

University Press, 2006, 2008), also published in French and Italian; a forthcoming series of articles on pre-Islamic Arabian markets; and a book in preparation on frontier societies in early Islam. Jamsheed K. Choksy (BA, Columbia University; PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Iranian Studies, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, and Affiliated Faculty Member of the Islamic Studies Program at Indiana University. He was nominated by the President of the USA and confirmed by the US Senate as a member of the National Council on the Humanities overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities. Choksy has held fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of three books: Evil, Good, and Gender: Facets of the Feminine in Zoroastrian Religious History (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2002); Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); and Purity and Pollution in Zoroastrianism: Triumph over Evil (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989). He was an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2007). Choksy also is a consulting editor of the Encyclopedia Iranica (New York: Columbia University). Touraj Daryaee is the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and specializes in the history and culture of the ancient and early medieval Iranian world. He also teaches old and middle Iranian languages and ancient Iranian religions. His latest books include Sasanian Persian: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, IB Tauris, 2009 and The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, Oxford, 2012. Leila R. Dodykhudoeva, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow at the Unit of Iranian Languages of the Department of Indo-European Languages at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Her research interests include lexicography, lexicology, ethnolinguistics, endangered languages, and Iranian studies. She is an expert in minor Iranian languages: indigenous, endangered, and threatened and minority language communities. She has worked extensively in the field with speakers of Pamiri languages. She has numerous publications on Pamiri languages, especially of the Shughnani-Rushani group. Her recent works are Pamiri languages and Shughnani language in The Iranian Languages / Ed. Gernot Windfuhr, Language Family Series, Routledge, 2010, with Joy I. Edelman; and a report of new data on the rare Sanglichi language from Afghan Badakhshan in Fundamentals of Iranian Languages (in Russian), with Sh. Yusufbekov (2008). This has brought her to an investigation of Nasir Khusraw's unique vocabulary, both as a poet and philosopher. Her publications, "The Concept of Sukhan-i Nik in Nasir Khusraw's Didactic Qasidas," with M. Reisner, in Nasir Khusraw: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (2005) and several works on Nasir Khusraw in Russian: The Concept of Poetic Creation: Nasir Khusraw's Qasidas, with M. Reisner (2004) and The Poetic Language as Means of Preaching: The

Concept of Sukhan-i Nik in Nasir Khusraw's Heritage, with M. Reisner (2007). M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. Ghanoonparvar has also taught at the University of Isfahan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Arizona and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan. He has published widely on Persian literature and culture in both English and Persian and is the author of Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (1984), In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (1993), Translating the Garden (2001), Reading Chubak (2005), and Persian Cuisine: Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods (2006). His translations include Jalal Al-e Ahmads By the Pen, Sadeq Chubaks The Patient Stone, Simin Daneshvars Savushun, Ahmad Kasravi's On Islam and Shi'ism, Sadeq Hedayats The Myth of Creation. Davud Ghaffarzadegan's Fortune Told in Blood, Mohammad Reza Bayrami's The Tales of Sabalan, and Bahram Beyza'i's Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role. His edited volumes include Iranian Drama: An Anthology, In Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in Middle Eastern Societies, Gholamhoseyn Saedis Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers, and Moniru Ravanipurs Satan Stones and Kanizu. His most recent books and translations include The Neighbor Says: Letters of Nima Yushij on Modern Persian Prosody, Ja'far Modarres-Sadeqis, The Horse's Head, (2011), and Red Olive: The Memoirs of Nahid Yusefian. He is working on two forthcoming books Iranian Films and Persian Fiction and Literary Diseases in Persian Literature. Vladimir Ivanov, Professor, Doctor of Philology, is a Chair of Iranian Studies in the Institute of the Countries of Asia and Africa at Moscow State University. His research interests include Iranian Studies, phonetics, and lexicography. He is an expert in Persian and Dari Iranian languages and has published widely on these languages. He is the leading expert on experimental phonetics of Iranian languages, including Persian, Dari and Avestan. In addition to his expertise in Avestan, Professor Ivanov together with Dr. Leila Dodykhudoeva is currently working on the mother tongue of the Zoroastrians of Iran, documenting data in Yazd and Kerman. Carina Jahani is the chair professor of Iranian Studies at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2005. Her main fields of research are the Balochi language and its literature, phonetic-phonological and morphosyntactic studies of New Persian and minority languages in Iran, orthography, language maintenance, and language documentation. She has organised several conferences and been the leader of three research projects with a focus on documentation and morphosyntactic description of Iranian languages (financed by the Swedish Research Council and the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS, London). She has also supervised a number of Ph.D. candidates. At present, she is working on two language documentation projects (Koroshi and Galeshi) and two translation projects (one from Persian into Swedish and one from Balochi into English) as well as on orthography development for non-written Iranian languages. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami is professor of Persian language and literature at the

Department of Middle Eastern Studies in New York University. His research is focused on the literary characteristics of contemporary Persian fiction and classical Persian poetry. He is the author of Modern Reflections of Classical Traditions in Persian Fiction (2003), a monograph that discusses some of the major characteristics of contemporary literary production and literary criticism in Iran. He is also the co-author, co-editor and co-translator of a number of books, including A Feast in the Mirror: Short Stories by Iranian Women (2000), Another Sea, Another Shore: Persian Stories of Migration (2004) and Critical Encounters: Essays on Persian Literature and Culture (2007). Currently he is working on "Who Writes Iran: Literary Discourses and CounterDiscourses in Contemporary Persian Fiction." This book-length project focuses on identifying the rhetorical and aesthetic dynamics of Persian modernist writing and contemporary Persian prison literature. Maryam Nourzaei is a Ph.D. candidate in Iranian languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden. She holds an M.A. in Linguistics from the Fars University of Sciences and Research (Danegah-e Olum va Ta?qiqat, Fars) Shiraz, Iran. Her main fields of research are language documentation, studies in morphosyntax and documentation of oral literature. She has carried out one documentation project in Fars (Koroshi, a variant of Balochi) and one in Sistan and Baluchestan (Southern Balochi), and she has also collected oral poetry in Balochi in Iran and Afghanistan. Nasrin Rahimieh is Maseeh Chair and Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian womens writing, and post-revolutionary cinema. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West (Brill 1990), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (Syracuse 2001), Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet Of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman And Feminine Pioneer Of New Persian Poetry (2010) co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Her English translation of the late Taghi Modarressis last novel, The Virgin of Solitude, as published in 2008 by Syracuse University Press. Donald L. Stilo received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1971. He currently conducts research in Northwest Iranian Language Project, Linguistics Department at Max Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. From 1997 to 2000, he served as a researcher with the Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Vafsi Language and Folk Tale Project at Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen, Gttingen, Germany. He has taught Persian and other languages as well as linguistics at various universities, including the University of Washington and Portland State University. He is the co-author of Modern Persian: Spoken and Written, and articles on various languages. About the Editors

M. R. Ghanoonparvar M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature and Persian Language at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on Persian literature and culture in both English and Persian and is the author of Prophets of Doom: Literature as a Socio-Political Phenomenon in Modern Iran (1984), In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (1993), Translating the Garden (2001), Reading Chubak (2005), and Persian Cuisine:Traditional, Regional and Modern Foods (2006). His translations include Jalal Al-e Ahmads By the Pen, Sadeq Chubaks The Patient Stone, Simin Daneshvars Savushun, and Sadeq Hedayats The Myth of Creation and his edited volumes include Iranian Drama: An Anthology, In Transition: Essays on Culture and Identity in Middle Eastern Societies, Gholamhoseyn Saedis Othello in Wonderland and Mirror-Polishing Storytellers, and Moniru Ravanipurs Satan Stones and Kanizu. Internationally recognized as an expert on Iranian culinary arts, he is also the author of three best-selling books on Persian cuisine and numerous articles on the history of food and food preparation in Iran in various encyclopedias and journals, and he has taught Iranian culinary courses throughout the United States. His television cooking show, Persian Cuisine, was popular for several years in the 1980s in such major cities as Austin, Houston, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. Behrad Aghaei Behrad Aghaei holds a doctorate degree in Theoretical Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin. At present, he is a lecturer of Persian language in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to teaching Persian language from elementary to advanced levels, he is conducting research on Persian syntax and morphology. His recent publication includes a coauthored paper, "Criteria for the Selection of Persian Text," with Professor Gernot Windfuhr. He is also the co-author of Persian Listening with R. Saraf, M.C. Hillmann and A. A. Pejman Aryan, published by Dunwoody Press in 2008.