A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa /

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This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja.Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in p...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anvar, Leili (Contribuidor), Berg, Gabrielle van den (Contribuidor), Bürgel, J.-Christoph (Contribuidor), Bürgel, Johann Christoph (Editor ), Casari, Mario (Contribuidor), Franke, Patrick (Contribuidor), Piemontese, Angelo Michele (Contribuidor), Ruymbeke, Christine van (Contribuidor), Ruymbeke, Christine (Editor ), Saccone, Carlo (Contribuidor), Seyed-Gohrab, Asghar (Contribuidor), Soucek, Priscilla (Contribuidor), Talattof, Kamran (Contribuidor), Waley, Muhammad Isa (Contribuidor), Würsch, Renate (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Colección:Iranian Studies Series
Temas:
CLH.
Cultural Studies.
LIT.
Language and Literature.
Literary Theory, Criticism, and History.
Middle East.
PHI.
Persian Empire.
Poetry by individual poets.
Poetry.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian.
Classical Persian Literature, Persian Poetry, Nizami.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction. "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm"
  • 1 Nizāmī's World Order
  • 2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn
  • 3 Descriptions and Images
  • Remarks on Gog and Magog in Nizāmī's Iskandar Nāma, Firdawsī's Shāh Nāma and Amīr Khusraw's A'īna-yi Iskandarī
  • 4 Nizāmī's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life
  • 5 Drinking from the Water of Life
  • Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature
  • 6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī's Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād
  • 7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories?
  • 8 The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī's Iqbāl Nāma
  • 9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar
  • 10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History
  • 11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry
  • 12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar
  • 13 "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizāmī on Animal and Man
  • Illustrations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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