The Education of Men (Ta’dib al-Rejāl): The Translator’s Commentary Cover Image

Wychowanie mężczyzn (Taʾdib al-redżāl): przekład z perskiego z komentarzem tłumacza
The Education of Men (Ta’dib al-Rejāl): The Translator’s Commentary

Author(s): Piotr Bachtin
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Taʾdib al-Rejāl; The Education of Men; Iranian feminism; translation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper contains a translation, from Persian into Polish, of Taʾdib al-Rejāl or The Education of Men − a satirical treatise written probably in 1886/1887 by an anonymous woman associated with the Iranian Qajar dynasty – complemented with the translator’s commentary interpreting the text as evidence of the socio-cultural changes in the late Qajar era as well as the prelude of the discourse of modernity and women’s liberation movement in Iran.

  • Issue Year: 16/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 169-175
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: English, Polish