Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac to Sureth Poetry on YouTube, via a Historical Novel in ArabicKervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic StudiesSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/AIXFDTMH/tei
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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.AlessandroMengozziYazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac to Sureth Poetry on YouTube, via a Historical Novel in Arabichttp://syriaca.org/cbss/AIXFDTMHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/AIXFDTMHhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/AIXFDTMHKervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies24:22020199-229Videos posted on YouTube show how stories of East-Syriac saints have found their way to a popular web platform, where they are re-told combining traditional genres with a culturally hybrid visual representation. The sketchy female characters Yazdandukht and Yazdui/Christine and the fully developed epos of Mar Qardagh, who belong to the narrative cycle of the Persian martyrs of Erbil and Kirkuk, inspired an Arabic illustrated historical novel, published in 1934 by the Chaldean bishop Sulaymān Ṣā’igh. A few years after the publication of the novel, a new cult of Mar Qardagh was established in Alqosh, in northern Iraq, including the building of a shrine, the painting of an icon, public and private rites, and the composition of hymns. In 1969 the Chaldean priest Yoḥannan Cholagh adapted Ṣā’igh’s Arabic novel to a traditional long stanzaic poem in the Aramaic dialect of Alqosh. The poem On Yazdandukht, as chanted by the poet himself, became the soundtrack of a video published on YouTube in 2014.
Mengozzi, Alessandro. “Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac to Sureth Poetry on YouTube, via a Historical Novel in Arabic.” Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 24:2 (2020): 199–229.
Alessandro Mengozzi, Yazdandukht and Mar Qardagh: From the Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac to Sureth Poetry on YouTube, via a Historical Novel in Arabic,Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 24:2 (2020): 199–229.AlqoshAssyriansChaldeansInternetMar QardagModern SyriacPersian martyrsXIX-XXI CEXX CEXXI CEYazdandukhthagiographyhymnographymartyrdompoetrysaintswomen