5-650: [REDACTED] Look up dastan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dastaan or Dastan (Persian: داستان , romanized: dâstân , lit. 'story, tale') may refer to: Dastan , an ornate form of oral history from Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan Dastangoi , an Urdu oral storytelling art form Dastan (1950 film) , an Indian drama film Dastaan (1972 film) , an Indian thriller film Dastaan (1995 TV series) , an Indian drama television series Dastaan (2010 TV series) ,
10-614: A Pakistani drama television series Prince Dastan of Persia, the protagonist of the film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dastaan . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dastaan&oldid=1256165505 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Persian-language text Short description
15-539: A historical person. This main character sets an example of how one should act, and the dastan becomes a teaching tool — for example the Sufi master and Turkic poet Ahmed Yesevi said "Let the scholars hear my wisdom, treating my words like a dastan". Alongside the wisdom, each dastan is rich with cultural history of interest to scholars. During the Russian conquest of Central Asia , many new dastans were created to protest
20-513: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages dastan Dastan ( Persian : داستان , romanized : dâstân , lit. 'story, tale') is an ornate form of oral history , an epic, from Central Asia , Iran , Turkey and Azerbaijan . A dastan is generally centered on one individual who protects his tribe or his people from an outside invader or enemy, although only occasionally can this figure be traced back to
25-600: The Russian occupation. It is possible that they came into contact and influenced each other. According to Turkish historian Hasan Bülent Paksoy, the Bolsheviks tried to destroy these symbols of culture by only publishing them in insufficiently large quantities and in a distorted form "in order to weaken the heroic impact". A notable dastan is Korkut Ata of the Oghuz Turks — which may have been created as early as
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