Bibliography: BIB30308

Key	BIB30308
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	A Mazandarani Account of the Babi Incident at Shaikh Tabarsi
Journal	Iranian Studies
Author	Borjian, Habib
Year	2006
Date	Sept. 2006
Issue	3
Volume	39
Abstract	This article transcribes and glosses a nineteenth-century Mazandarani document on Babi-state conflict at Shaikh Tabarsi. Collected in 1860 in the town of Barfurush, it was published five years later by Boris Andreevich Dorn in Perso-Arabic characters. The text is the first known prose document based on natural speech in the modern Mazandarani language. The language of the text is fundamentally the same as that spoken today in the Persian province of Mazandaran, located south of the Caspian Sea. As one expects, however, there are certain extinct traits in the text, which could be identified only by comparison with other surviving Mazandarani documents of the same period. The text will contribute to the study of the largely understudied language of Mazandaran, particularly to its development since the composition of the text. It may also serve as a supplementary historical document for the historic incident it narrates.
Language	English
Keywords	MAZANDARANI LANGUAGE; BABI FAITH; TABARSI
Pages	381–399
Legal note	11.
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