Occasional musings on Shi‘ism, Sufism, Persian literature, Indo-Persian culture, and other topics related to the study of Iran, India, and the Islamic world. Slow takes in a fast world.
Who Killed Siyavash? A Doomed Prince, a Modern Lesson
Lessons from the story of Siyavash, the doomed prince in the Shahnameh, the Persian epic by the great tenth-century author Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi.