title: Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance and the Later Perso-Islamicate World
abstract: In tenth century Khurasan and Transoxania, at the frontier of the Iranian cultural world, mythical and historical narratives such as the Shahnama helped to shape and maintain a sense of group Iranian identity for the Samanids and other Iranian Islamic dynasties. The Shahnama can be considered what narrative theorist Margaret Somers terms an âontological narrative.â These narratives helped Islamic dynasties such as the Samanids understand what it meant to be Iranian, and also became sources o
journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)