« Ibn Ḥusām’s Ḫāvarān-nāma and the Šāh-nāma of Firdawsī », in : Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda and Maria Szuppe, eds., Eurasian Studies [Liber Amicorum : Études sur l’Iran médiéval et moderne offertes à Jean Calmard]. Vol. V/1-2, 2006, pp. 219-234.
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Humbly introduced as the simple desire to draw attention to an important, but unfortunately hitherto rather neglected text, C. Melville’s contribution is an excellent and in depth state of the art account of what has been done on Ibn Ḥusām’s Ḫāvarān-nāme, including the available manuscripts and major studies. In addition Melville suggests very convincingly the roads to be taken for anyone venturing further into this 15th century epic depicting the feats of a mythical ‘Alī. In particular the a...
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Humbly introduced as the simple desire to draw attention to an important, but unfortunately hitherto rather neglected text, C. Melville’s contribution is an excellent and in depth state of the art account of what has been done on Ibn Ḥusām’s Ḫāvarān-nāme, including the available manuscripts and major studies. In addition Melville suggests very convincingly the roads to be taken for anyone venturing further into this 15th century epic depicting the feats of a mythical ‘Alī. In particular the a...
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