Adabīyāt-i ghanāʼī dar āyīnah-yi jāmiʻahʹshināsī: az Khusraw va Shīrīn tā Laylī va Majnūn bā tavajjuh bih ārā-yi Lūkāch va Būrdiyū, Ādūrnū

How do the great Persian verse romances speak to the sociology of literature? Zahrā Nūrmuḥammadī Najafʹābādī reads Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Khusraw va Shīrīn and Laylī va Majnūn through the lenses of György Lukács, Pierre Bourdieu, and Theodor W. Adorno, testing how far reflection theory, the four forms of capital, habitus and field, the culture industry, and the authoritarian personality can illuminate these twelfth-century masterpieces. Opening chapters set out each thinker's conceptual apparatus alongside the sociology of lyric literature; the central study then examines the social architecture of both poems, mapping the economic, cultural, social, and symbolic capital of Shīrīn, Maryam, Shakar, Mahīn Bānū, and Laylī, the semiotics of domination between lover and beloved, class values, and the paradox of Farhād's death and immortality. A comparative conclusion argues that the endurance of these romances reflects the demands and collective dispositions of the age that produced them.