METODOLOŠKI PRISTUP U SAVREMENIM ENCIKLOPEDIJAMA PERZIJSKOG JEZIKA I KNJIŽEVNOSTI
METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN CONTEMPORARY ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF PERSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Author(s): Munir Drkić, Đenita Haverić
Subject(s): Language studies, Cultural history, Lexis, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: Persian language; Persian literature; methodology; lexicography; encyclopedia;
Summary/Abstract: This paper provides a description of the methodology of three contemporary encyclopedias in the field of Iranian studies, with a special focus on the Persian language and literature. The authors first give a brief overview of Persian lexicography’s historical development, emphasizing its close ties with classical Persian literature. The subject of analysis in the second part of the paper are: The encyclopedia of Persian Language and Literature (Esmā‘īl Sa‘ādat, Dānešnāme-ye zabān va adab-e fārsī), Encyclopedia of Persian Literature (Hasan Anūše, Dānešnāme-ye adab-e fārsī), and Brill’s Encyclopaedia Iranica. These three encyclopedias provide analytical and research articles on authors, works, linguistic phenomena, relevant terminology, literary styles, Iranian languages, prominent Iranists, and other topics relevant from the Iranian studies’ point of view. We conclude that the three encyclopedic works apply different methodological approaches; however, the international character of Persian literary tradition is clearly observable in all of them. Moreover, these encyclopedias are seen as a continuation of the millennium-old lexicographical tradition that had produced hundreds of dictionaries in vast geographical expanses from India to the Balkans and beyond.

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