Jalal Matini (; 1928 – 19 January 2025) was an Iranian scholar of
Persian literature
Persian literature comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day ...
, particularly renowned for his expertise on the epic
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' (, ), also transliterated ''Shahnama'', is a long epic poem written by the Persian literature, Persian poet Ferdowsi between and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couple ...
by
Ferdowsi
Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a single poet, and the gre ...
, and contemporary
Iranian studies
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. He is also known for producing the critical edition of the
Kush Nama
Kush-Nama (), is a Persian epic poem and part of a mythical history of Iran written by Ḥakim Iranshān (or Irānshāh) ibn Abu l-Khayr between the years 501-04/1108-11.
Manuscript and background
A critical edition of the poem based on unique ma ...
.
Prior to the 1979 Iranian revolution, Matini was a professor and president of the
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Iran). After emigrating to the United States, Matini taught Persian literature at the
University of California, Berkeley
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and at
Harvard University
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, and founded the journals ''Iran-Nameh'', and ''
Iran-Shenasi''. He died on 19 January 2025, at the age of 96.
دکتر جلال متینی ، رئیس سابق دانشگاه فردوسی درگذشت
Works
Books
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Other publications/articles
Virtually all of Jalal Matini's work are in Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
but he has also written some English articles.
*J. Matini, "Kush-Nama" in Mahmoud Omidsalar (Author), A. Tafazzoli (Editor), Touraj Daryaee "The Spirit of Wisdom: Menog I Xrad : Essays in Memory of Ahmad Tafazzoli",Mazda Publishers (September 2003).
*J. Matini, "ĀFARĪN-NĀMA" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "HEDĀYAT AL-MOTAʿALLEMIN FI’L-ṬEBB" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "ʿAMĀRA MARVAZĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "AFIFI, RAḤIM" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "ADĪB NĪŠĀBURĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "ʿAMʿAQ BOḴARĀʾĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "ḤABIB-ALLĀH ḴORĀSĀNI" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "BAHMANYĀR AḤMAD" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "FAYYĀŻ, ʿALĪ-AKBAR MAJĪDĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "FARROḴ, Sayyed MAḤMŪD" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "AYĀZ, ABU’L-NAJM" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "ĀẔAR BĪGDELĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matīnī, "ʿAWFĪ, SADĪD-AL-DĪN" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matini, "KUŠ-NĀMA" in Encyclopædia Iranic
*J. Matīnī, M. Caton, "ʿĀREF QAZVĪNĪ" in Encyclopædia Iranic
See also
* '' Iran Shenasi''
* Iranian studies
Iranian studies ( '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It is a part of the wider field ...
References
External links
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Books by Author, Jalal Matini
1928 births
2025 deaths
Iranian literary scholars
Iranian writers
Iranologists
Iranian emigrants to the United States
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Harvard University faculty
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