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Persian Parables: Form As Philosophy Hamid Dabashi Princeton University Press
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Persian Parables: Form As Philosophy Hamid Dabashi Princeton University Press

A significant re-evaluation of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thought. In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reassessment of the parable in...

A significant re-evaluation of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thought. In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reassessment of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a form of philosophical reflexivity. Dabashi avoids the traditional focus on the supposed moral or...

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A significant re-evaluation of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thought. In this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reassessment of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a form of philosophical reflexivity. Dabashi avoids the traditional focus on the supposed moral or political references in these parables—"the moral of the story"—to allow the radical surfaces of their poetic disposition to be revealed. Instead, he focuses on what Kafka called "the imaginary beyond," as the defining moment of the parable. Focusing on an ongoing trajectory of Persian parables through the centuries, Dabashi shows that the genre is not confined to masterpieces like those of the iconic poets Sa’di, Rumi, Attar, and Sana’i. In fact, he argues that parabolic thinking has a much broader field in Persian literature and philosophy and plays a distinct role in Persian and Islamic traditions. The cumulative effect of these parables spread across Persian prose and poetry is an al-mul al-mithal, of a parabolic world—a world of parables, similitudes, and beliefs. Dabashi highlights the moment in these works when life is absorbed within the typical fabric of stories, erasing the dividing line between fact and fiction, history and story, the living and the dead, the real and the unreal—and life itself, as we live it, becomes a strange and enchanting parable. With this cyclical self-referentiality, parables offer a mode of thinking as a philosophical form.

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Princeton University Press
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Language
Greek
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9780691269894

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Soft
Number of Pages
232
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Release Date
25/08/2026
Publication Date
2026

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Classic Texts

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