On October 28-30, 2013, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the Third Annual Conference "Written Monuments of the East: Problems of Translation and Interpretation", organized by the Department of Written Monuments of the Peoples of the East. Its participants, experts in various fields of Oriental source studies, focused on problems related to both reading and authentic interpretation and translation of monuments of Eastern literature and historiography, folklore texts and legislative documents, interpretation of the figurative language of Oriental art and concepts of traditional aesthetics. The conference featured 27 reports, including reports from researchers from Iran, Malaysia and Uzbekistan. In the NYU report that opened the conference. Chalisova University (RSUH) ("Parisan concept in Persian poetic images: broken harmony and lost unity") it was noted that in the intellectual culture of the medieval world of Islam, the opposition of "scattered" and " collected "is already represented in the Arabic and Persian designations of two sections of the" beautiful word": nathr, letters," scattering", i.e. prose, and nazm, i.e. ordering or stringing the scattered, similar to making a pearl necklace. According to the researcher, in the aggregate, the canons of Persian classical poetry regulate not only the form of verse, but also the repertoire of stock "ideas" and "terms of poets", creating a special semantic space that can be called the Iranian traditional poetic picture of the world. Among such concepts, which are key to the poetic system as a whole, belongs parisani (absent-mindedness, dispersion; disorder; restlessness, excitement, confusion, anxiety, disorder; poverty, misery), which is present in the overwhelming majority of lyrical texts, indicating a special state of thoughts and feelings, words, deeds, the fate of a person, community, state, world. The report examined the range of images that use the concept of parisani and ... Read more