A Survey of the Translation of “Kharname”

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Kharname” has been written in French and in the most references, Etemad-o-Saltane has been introduced as the Persian translator. He was proficient in French language and have translated many works into Persian; so, the most of criticisms have supposed that he has translated this book from French.
Since, usually in translation some items penetrate from the original language, in this essay, these items have made obvious the book is translated from Turkish to Persian. And different ideas which have been added to the main text in order to embellish and criticize government have been shown.

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