14. Debate in Iranian Literary Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. Section I. Disputations from the Ancient Near East
5. 2. The Sumerian Precedence Debates 11
6. 3. An Introduction to the Sumerian School Disputes 33
7. 4. “She was dumbstruck and took it to heart” 57
8. 5. The Tamarisk, the Date-Palm and the King 75
9. 6. Antiques in the King’s Libraries 91
10. 7. La «fable» égyptienne du Corps et de la Tête (tablette Turin CG 58004) 105
11. 8. Opposing Voices in Ancient Egyptian Literature 121
12. 9. Those Who Cannot Do, Reign? 143
13. Section II. Eastern Disputations during the Middle Ages
14. 10. Disputations in Syriac Literature 159
15. 11. The Debate of Spring and Autumn in Arabic Literature 175
16. 12. Night and Day in Islamicate Literary Disputation 191
17. 13. Disputation Poems in Medieval Hebrew Literature in Spain 215
18. 14. Debate in Iranian Literary Culture 237
19. 15. The Rhetoric of Persian Verbal Contests 261
20. 16. A Survey of Disputation Texts in Ottoman Literature 283
21. 17. Dispute Poems in Armenian 309
22. Section III. Western Disputations during the Middle Ages
23. 18. Tradition and Innovation in the Early Medieval Latin Debates 335
24. 19. Owls, Nightingales, Cuckoos and Other Feathered Disputants 353
25. 20. De la dispute des clercs au dialogue des acteurs 369
26. Section IV. Contemporary Disputation Texts
27. 21. Neo-Aramaic Dialogue and Dispute Poems 391
28. 22. Modern Vernacular Disputation Poems from Bahrain and the Wider Gulf 415
29. Section V. Other Traditions of Disputations
30. 23. Ludic Disputations in the East-Asian Cultural Sphere 435
31. Index of Contestants 457