"Kafour-e Fansur"]Fansur Camphor[ or "Kafour-e Manthur" ]Powdered Camphor[: Suggesting a Lexical Change in the Shahnameh

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Article 4, Volume 45, Issue 4 - Serial Number 179, February 2012, Pages 65-89   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/jls.v45i4.22946

Author

Farzam Haghighi^*

Abstract

The story of "Yazdgerd Shahriar" in the Shahnameh refers to a kind of camphor named "Kafour-e Manthur" whose records vary in the Shahnameh manuscripts and printed editions. Considering the cultural background of the story, this kind of camphor has first been traced in Islamic and Arabic texts and then, using the information derived from geographic and medical texts, "Kafour-e Fansur" has been suggested as a more likely record.

Keywords

Shahnameh; "Kafour-e Fansur"; "Kafour-e Manthur”; textual criticism