Mahmoud Omidsalar
Mahmoud Omidsalar | |
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محمود امیدسالار | |
Born | November 26, 1950 |
Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Persian literature, linguistics, poetics |
Mahmoud Omidsalar (born November 26, 1950) is an Iranian literary critic and Jordan Center for Persian Studies' Scholar in Residence. He is known for his research on Persian epic and Shahnameh in particular. He is an editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and an author of The Comprehensive History of Iran.[1] He has criticized Eurocentrism and Orientalism in his works. [2][3][4]
References[]
- ^ "Spotlight Detail". UCI Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.
- ^ Reynolds, Dwight F. (1997). "A Review of One's Own: A Response to Omidsalar". Western Folklore. 56 (1): 79–83. doi:10.2307/1500387. ISSN 0043-373X.
- ^ Lewis, Franklin (4 May 2015). "The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi as World Literature". Iranian Studies. 48 (3): 313–336. doi:10.1080/00210862.2015.1023063. ISSN 0021-0862.
- ^ "Iranian academics ask Western scholars avoid considering Ferdowsi's poetry medieval | IBNA". Iran's Book News Agency (IBNA). 16 January 2021.
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- University of California, Berkeley alumni
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