Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda
Abstract
A classic of modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, the shah, and the old religious and political order during the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1906–11). The chapters were the Daily Show of their era. The columns were heatedly debated in the Iranian parliament, and the newspaper was shut down on several occasions for its criticism of the religious establishment. Translated by two distinguished ... More
Keywords: Persian literature, modern literature, Iranians, religious order, political order, Constitutional Revolution, Iranian parliament, religious establishment, political observations, Charand-o Parand
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300197990 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300197990.001.0001 |
