Abstract
This substantial book, an extended version of a doctorate written at the University of Leiden, publishes a wealth of material collected during extensive fieldwork among the Isma’ilis of Badakhshan. The material, in Tajik Persian, Shughni-Rushâni and Waxi, amply illustrates the complexity of the relationship between orality and literacy in this area. The boundaries between oral and literate poetry have blurred; many of the poems take the form of literary genres such as the ghazal and the quatr...
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