This study proposes an innovative, triangular close reading of three Persian authors: Nezāmi, Golshiri, and Mandanipour. It argues that the two modern authors, Hushang Golshiri with his famous novella Shāh-e siyāhpushān, the “King of those clad in black,” and Shahriar Mandanipour in his Censoring an Iranian Love Story, are not only bound to each other in a close master-disciple relationship, but also consciously expound on the subversive potential of the twelfth-century poet Nezāmi. In the process, the divide between modern and classical narrative traditions in Persian literature is bound to disappear, allowing for novel interpretations and perspectives on Nezāmi and for his epics to be heard.

This paper describes digital image recording and measurement procedures of Fusarium species macroconidia with reference strains of F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. graminearum, F. oxysporum, F. sambucinum and Microdochium nivale. Computerized taxonomic recognition of the most important Fusarium species occuring on cereals was achieved by statistical tests based on morphometric parameters from macroconidia (numerical taxonomy). A first grouping resulted from Brandt-Snedecor contingency tests (χ2) indicating different frequency distributions of macroconidia with various numbers of septa. For discrimination and ranking within these groups by clustering procedures, analysis of variance and multiple comparison of means, deviation from circular (circular form factor) was most suitable out of 12 morphometric parameters tested on macroconidia of the most frequent septation classes.