Golin Khanum’s Tales قصه های مشدی گلین خانم – ۱۱۰ قصه عامیانه ایرانی

Lawrence Paul Alol Satin, a famous Orientals and Iranologist, met an Iranian woman while he was on duty in Iran during World War II, who had a precious and inexhaustible treasure trove of Iranian folk tales in her memory. Elle Satin realized the value of this treasure and during many meetings, many of them, just as Ms. Goleenn speaks and puts on paper. Through her efforts, an important part of our popular cultural heritage was saved from the robbery of time and You read as he hears.About Author:
Laurence Paul Elwell-Sutton (1912–1984) was a British scholar of Persian culture and Islamic studies.
He was professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, where he held a chair in the school’s department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. He was noted for a variety of published works on Persian language, Persian literature and folklore; modern Persian political history, and Islamic science. His 1955 book Persian Oil: a Study in Power Politics is noted as both influential and controversial.
Elwell-Sutton was born in Ballylickey, Ireland on 2 June 1912. He attended Winchester College and earned his honors degree in Arabic at the School of Oriental Studies at the University of London in 1934. From 1935 to 1938 he worked for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran. He then worked for several years as an expert on Persia for the BBC, before serving as the press attache for the British Embassy in Tehran from 1943 to 1947. He took up a post as lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 1952, which he held until his retirement in 1982.

لارنس پل الول ساتن شرق شناس و ایران شناس مشهور،هنگامی که در زمان جنگ جهانی دوم در ایران مامور بود، با پیرزنی ایرانی آشنا شد که گنجینه ای گرانبها و پایان ناپذیر از قصه های عامیانه ی ایرانی را در حافظه داشت. الول ساتن ارزش این گنجینه را دریافت و طی جلسات متمادی بسیاری از آنها را دقیقا همچنان که گلین خانم بر زبان می آورد و بر روی کاغذ آورد.به همت او بخش مهمی از میراث فرهنگی عامه ی ما از دستبرد زمان نجات یافت و اینجاها را به همان گونه که او شنیده، میخوانید.

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لورنس پل الول- ساتون (1984-1912) دانشمند انگلیسی و فرهنگ ایرانی و مطالعات اسلامی بود. وی استاد ظهور در دانشگاه ادینبورگ، جایی که در گروه مدرسه مطالعات اسلامی و خاورمیانه بود. وی به خاطر انواع آثار منتشر شده در زمینه زبان فارسی، ادبیات فارسی و فرهنگ عامه و تاریخ سیاسی مدرن فارسی و علوم اسلامیمورد توجه قرار گرفت. کتاب او در سال 1955 “نفت فارسی: یک مطالعه در سیاستگذاری قدرت” هم تأثیرگذار و هم بحث برانگیز است.