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CIS Newsletter 15.1 In CENTER FOR IRANIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER Vol. 15, No. 1 MEALAC-Columbia University-New York Spring 2003 ENCYCLOPÆDIA IRANICA Mahmoud Khayami Fascicles 5 and 6 of Volume XI Published; Heads The Persian Fascicle 1 of Volume XII in Press Heritage Foundation The fifth and sixth fascicles of highly informative on the numer- In the April meet- Volume XI of Encyclopædia ous Iranian influences on Hadith, ing of the Board of Iranica were published in the Win- from items of vocabulary to events the Persian Heri- ter and Spring of 2003. These fas- in the biography of the Prophet tage Foundation, cicles feature over 120 articles on (e.g. his heavenly journey, or various aspects of Persian culture and me’raj), acts of worship (e.g. five daily which was incor- history, including three major series of prayers), and customs (e.g. the belief in porated in 1984 as articles on specific subjects: three en- religious benefit through using a tooth- a not-for-profit tries on Hadith; fourteen entries on pick, or mesvak). foundation to pro- Hafez; and nine entries on Hamadan. mote Persian culture and assist schol- With the publication of these fascicles, HAFEZ ars of Iranian studies in their work, the Volume XI of the Encyclopædia has Board elected Mr. Mahmoud Khayami, been completed, and its bound volume Fascicle five also features 14 ma- the renowned financier, philanthropist, will be distributed in the early Summer. jor entries on Hafez. The series opens and art collector as its new Chairman with an overview by the Editor, who of the Board and President. HADITH sums up the essence of Hafez’s poetry and positions and critically examines Fascicle five features the remain- and challenges some of the long-held The Persian Heritage Foundation ing three articles, in a series of five, on assumptions and often-repeated inter- has been most active in the field of re- various aspects of Hadith: These entries Continued on page 2 Continued on page 11 focus on HADITH IN ISMAILISM by I. Poonawala; HADITH IN SUFISM by H. Miami Benefit Gala Raises Algar; and the much-neglected topic of HADITH AS INFLUENCED BY IRANIAN IDEAS Over $340,000 for the Endowment AND PRACTICES by S. Shaked. Professor On Saturday, February 8, 2003, in rehabilitation medicine, and Dr. Shaked’s contribution, in particular, is a Gala benefit dinner and auction or- Parvin Ganjei-Azar, Professor of Pa- ganized by Friends of the thology at the University of Miami. Encyclopædia Iranica (EIr.) was held Shohreh Aghdashloo, the well- at the elegant Sheraton Bal Harbour known actress and media personality, Beach Resort in Miami Beach, was the Mistress of Ceremony. Florida. The Executive Committee con- The theme of the Gala 2003 was sisted of Karim Atash, Ahmad to honor modern Iranian-American Tavakoly (audio-visual), Mitra women who have distinguished them- Heyat (design), Shahrzad Khosravi selves in various fields of human en- (sponsorship), Ali Mahallati (auc- deavor and to celebrate their strong tion), Jila Rezaie, Dr. Ebrahim presence in social, cultural, and po- Mostoufi, and members of Persian litical arenas, and the inspiration they Village, i.e., the Anasseri family: have provided by their accomplish- Babak, Siamak, Siavash and Shiva ments and excellence. Eight women (Gala Journal/public relations). were honored in the fields of human rights, fiction, journalism, science, Members of the Gala Commit- cultural activity, medicine, poetry, and tees included: Sara Anasseri, Hasti visual arts. and Armin Azar, Dr. Reza Azar, Lia Berton, Aydin Bonabi, Alicia The Gala was organized by a Cabrera, Fereshteh and Parisa Daee, group of dedicated supporters of Willette Davis, Sedi, Parham, and Encyclopaedia Iranica who worked Samin Eftekhari, Sohrab Farshadi, tirelessly over nine months to ensure Dr. Minoo Golkar, Zoya its success. The event was Co-chaired Hajianpour, Sheri Kamali- HAJI VASHANGTON, first Iranian ambassador to Washington, 1888-89 by Dr. Nasser Eftekhari, a specialist Continued on page 6 CISNewsletter 2 Continued from page 1 risy and deception on the part of the pretations of Hafez’s poems. He dis- religious figures made him turn to at- tinguishes three main themes in his po- tacking with unparalleled wit and verve etry: love; the satire of the hypocritical the hidden unbelief of the whole gang. pretenders of virtue among the Sufis and Rends and qalandars designate no oth- the representatives of formal religion; ers than debauchees and the derelicts and the praise of wine and the exalta- of the society who frequent taverns and tion of the rends, the wine-sellers, and places of disrepute (kharabat). In his other social outcasts. The praise of the jibes against the hypocrites, Hafez debauchees and derelicts and holding places rends, qalandars, and wine-sell- them up as paragons of virtue is used ers on a pedestal and presents them in as an effective jibe against the hypo- contrast to the pretentious hypocrites as crites and the people whom he desig- symbols of sincerity and virtue. Noth- nates as shaiks (religious elders), moftis ing mystical here. To read anything but (clerics who issue religious rulings), infamous outcasts of the society in judges, mohtasebs (officials charged rends and tavern-keepers is to miss with policing public morals), waezes Hafez’s point as well as his biting hu- Hamadan in the 19th century, from (preachers), hafezes (memorizers and mor. The Editor emphasizes that the the entry HAMADAN HISTORY reciters of the Koran), faqihs (scholars language of Hafez is a transparent one of religious law), zaheds (ascetics, but in the best tradition of Persian poetry. by A. Eshragh; HISTORY, ISLAMIC PE- in Hafez’s Divan, practitioners of sham Hafez says what he means. It is only RIOD, by P. Azkai; MONUMENTS, by A. piety), imam-e jamaats (leaders of pub- the mystical tendencies in some of his Mousavi and EIr; JEWISH COMMUNITY, lic prayer), and Sufis (practitioners of readers that imposes fancy metaphysi- by H. Sarshar; and JEWISH DIALECT, by Islamic mysticism). cal and mystical interpretations of D. Stilo; for pre-Islamic history see Hafez. Otherwise wine, rend, and ECBATANA. The mocking satire of the group shahed mean exactly what they do. It certainly is not a lyrical theme, but is his abhorrence of the Sufis of his time HISTORY, PRE-ISLAMIC Hafez’s passionate opposition to hypoc- that makes a sage and an inspired phi- losopher of the pir-e moghan, an eld- Eight entries deal with pre-Islamic erly Zoroastrian tavern-keeper. Even history: HAFT TEPE, the Elamite archaeo- his frequent praise of wine and drunk- logical site in Khuzestan province, by enness is meant to be a thorn in the side E. Negahban; HAFTAVAN TEPE, a large of the hypocrites who pawn their prayer settlement mound in the Urmia basin, rugs in order to buy the forbidden wine. Azerbaijan, by C. Burney; two entries on the HAJIABAD INSCRIPTIONS, bilingual The major entry on Hafez’s poetic inscriptions of Shapur I on the wall of arts is written by J. T. P. de Bruijn. Hajiabad cave near Persepolis: one on Several other scholars discuss the vari- the INSCRIPTIONS, by P. Gignoux, and ous aspects of his poetry. one on the TEXTS, by EIr; HALICARNASSUS, the ancient town of Other entries are: HAFEZ’S LIFE AND Caria, once the seat of a kingdom tribu- TIMES, by B. Khorramshahi and EIr; tary to Persia, by B. Genito; HAFEZ’S POETIC ART, by J.T.P. de HAMARAKARA, an Old Iranian title at- Bruijn; LEXICAL STRUCTURE OF HAFEZ’S tested in various sources of Achaemenid GHAZALS, by M. Correale; MANU- and later times, by M. Dandamayev; SCRIPTS OF HAFEZ, by J. Meisami; PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE DIVAN OF HAFEZ, by B. Khorramshahi and EIr; HAFEZ AND RENDI and HAFEZ AND MU- SIC, both by F. Lewis; TRANSLATIONS OF HAFEZ IN ENGLISH, by P. Loloi; TRANS- LATIONS OF HAFEZ IN GERMAN, by H. Tafazoli; HAFEZ AND THE VISUAL ARTS, by P. Soucek; and HAFEZ’S TOMB (Hafeziya), by K. Kamali Sarvestani. HAFEZ AND ERFAN will be treated in the Supplement; for FAL-E HAFEZ see FAL- NAMAHA and DIVINATION. HAMADAN These fascicles feature a major se- ries of nine entries on Hamadan: GEOG- RAPHY, by P. Azkai and EIr; POPULA- TION, by H. Zanjani; HISTORICAL GEOG- From the entry Tomb of Avicenna, from the entry HAFEZ AND THE VISUAL ARTS RAPHY, by X. de Planhol; URBAN PLAN, HAMADAN MONUMENTS 3 CISNewsletter and Culture: HAFT, on the significance Shaikh Mahmud, the charismatic cleric of the haft in Persian culture and his- and founder of the Hojjatiya Associa- tory, HAFT KESHVAR, meaning seven re- tion, by M. Sadri; HALABI, the Imami gions, the usual geographical division jurist and theologian, by E. Kohlberg; of the world in Iranian tradition, HAREM HALAL O HARAM, Islamic legal terms IN ANCIENT IRAN, the first of two entries meaning “permissible” and “prohib- on harems, and HAFTVAD (Haftwad), on ited,” by D. al-Sajdi; HAERI, Shaikh the hero of a legend associated with the Abd-al-Karim, founder of an institution rise of the Sasanian Ardashir I, all by S. of religious knowledge (Hawza-ye Shahbazi; HAFTORANG, the circumpo- elmiya) in Qom, by H. Algar; two lar constellation of Ursa Major, and schools of Sunni jurisprudence, HAFT AMAHRASPAND YAST, the second HANAFITE MADHAB, named after Abu hymn of the Avestan corpus, both by Hanifa Noman b. Tabet, and HANBALITE A. Panaino; HAFTANBOXT, the legend- MADHAB, named after Ahmad b. Hanbal, ary warlord in southern Persia, by M. both by M. Swartz; and HAKAMI, Mirza Shaki; HAFTA, or “Week,” by EIr; Ali-Akbar, the 19th-20th century phi- HAMESTAGAN, a word in Pahlavi litera- losopher and theosopher, by M. ture designating the stage between para- Khalaji.
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