Онлайн книга «Словесность Индии и Ирана. Сакральный текст и смеховая культура»
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The stages of European reception of this story are well known. Following the advent of Italian (1557), and later French translations, Voltaire used the plot in the philosophical and satirical oriental story “Zadig, or The Book of Fate”; darwinist Thomas Henry Huxley in his essay “On the method of Zadig” substantiated the application of the “retrospective prophecy” scientific method in history, archeology and paleontology; Voltaire’s Zadig influenced both Edgar Allan Poe and then Conan Doyle and the “deductive” (more precisely, abductive) method of his Sherlock Holmes. Neologism “serendipity”, invented by Horace Walpole in 1754 and gaining popularity in the 20th century in the meaning of an unexpected, unintentional discovery, goes back to Sarandip, the name of the homeland of the three princes. All this material is discussed in the methodologically famous work “Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm” (1986) by Carlo Ginzburg, who connected the “evidential paradigm” with the Arabic firāsa, a “complex notion which, in general, designated the ability to pass, on the basis of clues, directly from the known to the unknown”; Ginzburg noted that the Sarandip princes were famous exactly for that ability. In my article the Persian prose sources of the Three princes tale are under discussion, as well as some other sagacity stories from Persian didactic books (adab). Among the detective characters Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā gained became very popular; in some stories, the great philosopher and author of the fundamental “Canon of Medical Science” acts as a doctor who recognizes a disease by symptoms and at the same time as a detective who restores the course of events from evidence and refutes unfair accusations before a judge. KEYWORDS: Persian poetry, poem, adab genre, Ibn Sina, Sarandip, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi, literary reception, Carlo Ginzburg, evidential paradigm, serendipity. Summary Literature of India and Iran:Sacred Text and the Culture of Laughter / compiled by Natalia V. Aleksandrova, Dmitrii A. Komissarov; scientific editor Dmitrii A. Komissarov; HSE University. – Moscow: HSE Publishing House, 2026. – 336 pp. – (Orientalia et Classica series. XIII (LXXXIV) / Editor-in-chief Ilya S. Smirnov). – 500 copies. – ISBN 978-5-7598-4120-3 (hardcover). – ISBN 978-5-7598-4460-0 (e-book). India and Iran represent a culturally unique region with an exceptionally rich and complex history of interactions with other civilizational centers. The unity and diversity in the development of this cultural area have consistently attracted the attention of researchers – historians, linguists, folklorists, literary scholars, and religious studies experts. In this book, a team of scholars specializing in various fields of the spiritual and intellectual history of India and Iran has attempted to explore their ancient origins and trace the history of their ideas and images that have left a significant mark on world culture. The book is intended for orientalists, philologists, as well as for anyone interested in the history and culture of India and Iran. |