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By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part IV, Chapter Two (Part 3): Analytical reading of Mem û Zîn as a tragic drama The setting, and atmosphere: Newroz celebration of tradition, beauty, universal love The actual drama starts with the scene of Newroz (471 ff) when, in…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part IV, Chapter Two (Part 2): Analytical reading of Mem û Zîn as a tragic drama Khani on the Principles of Necessity and Probability The next parts of the drama will move to scenes of description and action. As Khani…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part IV, Chapter Two (Part 1): Analytical reading of Mem û Zîn as a tragic drama Act I – Love and beauty Prologue: Storyteller’s introduction to the story The actual story starts with verse 363. A storyteller described by Khani as…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part IV, Chapter 1: The dramatic structure of the tragedy (as a play) The Mem û Zîn drama is divided in terms of content and dramatic progression into three parts: Part 1: Starts with the introduction of the main…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ PART IV: Introduction As already mentioned, the drama of Mem û Zîn starts with a prologue in which Khani critically depicts his consciously-constructed literary-national-philosophical enterprise. He is aware of his project, asserts its innovative character, being first a text…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part III, Chapter 4: Mem û Zîn’s dramatic plot The most important primary element of tragedy as explained by Aristotle is its plot – with complex plots having a better chance, space and scope to create a more successful…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part III, Chapter 3: Khani’s Mem û Zîn as a unique genre of tragedy In the light of the Aristotelian theory of tragedy I will try in this chapter to explore and analyse the defining dramatic nature of Mem…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part III, Chapter 2: Aristotle’s theory of tragedy Poetry and tragedy For Aristotle, a fundamental premise that defines what is being a human is that “All human beings by nature desire knowledge” (Metaphysics, (980a1). Therefore they do not only…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part III: The genre of Mem û Zîn as Tragedy Chapter One: On defining literary genres As we showed in the first part of this study, Mem û Zîn is generally, though mostly arbitrarily, described as ‘epic’; while Chyat’s…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part 11 Chapter Two: Khani on Mem û Zîn We have shown above (1.1) that writing Mem û Zîn in Kurdish was the result of a conscious stubborn determination to show the world that Kurdish language can be used…
By Kurdish Book Club: Kurdish Book Club presents a Seminar on ‘Mem u Zin of Ahmadi Khani’ by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli Sunday 14th April 2013 From 15:00 -18:00 Birkbeck College, University of London, Lecture theatre B33*, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX As part of a series of seminars, the Kurdish Book Club is pleased to…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part II, Chapter 1: Khani’s theory of Kurdish nationalism Perhaps pseudo-Kurdologists, Euro-centrists and Orientalists, in Edward Said’s sense of the word, would be annoyed by just seeing this title let alone my argument for the fact that there is…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Part II Ahmadi Khani’s Prologues Introduction Chapter 1: Khani’s theory of Kurdish nationalism Chapter 2: Khani on Mem û Zîn Introduction Mem û Zîn is a self-conscious work. Khani knows what he is doing, how he is writing…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Chapter Four: The form and genre of Khani’s literary work Chyet describes Mem û Zîn in terms of form as “a long epic poem (2655 lines) in the Persian Masnawi style, characterized by strict symmetrical structure, each line…
By Dr Kamal Mirawdeli: ‘Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Khani’s Tragedy of Mem û Zîn’ Chapter Three: Mem û Zîn editions Although Khani’s Mem û Zîn was written at the close of the seventeenth century, it was not until the end of the World War 1 that it was first published. The first…
