Story · A Ballad of Love · Mina edition
A Ballad of Love · the Mina narrative
English finding-aid title for the scanned Persian text; not a published English translation title.
An old woman’s boat journey with a boy returns her to a forced marriage, a musician’s songs and a love she must reconsider.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- A Ballad of Love · Mina edition
- Source date
- Autumn 1371 [1992] · Mina edition
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the inspected Persian scan. The complete literary text remains with the original publication.
Reading orientation
Bibi asks Javad to take her out on the river. Their journey through changing light brings back her youth: her attachment to Yusuf, the songs of his brother Ibrahim and a marriage imposed after her cousin killed a stranger. The murdered man’s family demanded compensation that included the girl herself. Source 1
The boat’s progress holds a lifetime inside one evening. Songs and repeated images of birds connect the present journey to earlier violence, tenderness and loss. A remembered body carried on the same water unsettles Bibi’s account of her own desire. This orientation follows the Mina scan’s single continuous narrative; Pendaar’s later collection listing does not establish identical contents. Source 1
The scanned appearance
Tasnif-e yek eshq appears in A Ballad of Love · Mina edition, PDF pages 4–39. The scanned imprint names Mina, Tehran and first edition autumn 1371. The narrative’s closing dateline is autumn 1357, Abadan; composition and publication remain distinct. The date identifies the scanned volume, rather than an independently established composition date. The English title is a finding aid. Source 1
Sources & credits
- A Ballad of Love · the Mina narrative · scanned Persian source
Tasnif-e yek eshq. A Ballad of Love · Mina edition. The scanned imprint names Mina, Tehran and first edition autumn 1371. The narrative’s closing dateline is autumn 1357, Abadan; composition and publication remain distinct. PDF pages 4–39. The English paragraphs are original editorial reading orientations, not reproduced or translated literary passages.