UID:
kobvindex_HPB1256589520
Format:
1 online resource (1 electronic resource (304 pages)).
ISBN:
9789400600140
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9400600143
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1283231956
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9781283231954
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9786613231956
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6613231959
Series Statement:
Iranian studies series
Content:
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 present-day Azerbaijan. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering figure who produced outstanding poetry, straddling mysticism, romances and epics. He has left his mark on the whole Persian-speaking world and countless younger poets in the area stretching from the Ottoman to the Mughal worlds (present-day Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India) have found him an inspiration and have tried to emulate him. His work has influenced such other immense poets as Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi. His five masnavis (long poems) address a variety of topics and disciplines and have all enjoyed enormous fame, as the countless surviving manuscripts of his work indicate. His heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, Iskandar count amongst the stars of the Persian literary firmament and have become household names all over the Islamic world. The essays in the present volume constitute a significant development in the field of Nizami-studies, and on a more general level, of classical Persian literature. They focus on topics such as mysticism, art history, comparative literature, science, and philosophy. they show how classical Greek knowledge mingles in a unique manner with the Persian past and the Islamic culture in Nizami's world. They reflect a high degree of engagement with the existing scholarship in the field, they revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work and are indispensable both for specialists in the field and for anyone interested in the movement of ideas in the Medieval world
Content:
Deze "sleutel" om de 'Khamsa' te ontsluiten bestaat uit dertien essays door specialisten op het gebied van Perzische Studies. Elk essay richt zich op een ander aspect van de 'Khamsa', een verzameling van vijf lange gedichten geschreven door de Perzische dichter Nizami van Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) woonde en werkte in Ganja, in het huidige Azerbeidzjan. Hij wordt algemeen erkend als een van de belangrijkste dichters van het middeleeuwse Perzië. Hij schreef poëzie op het breukvlak mystiek, romances en heldendichten en drukte zijn stempel op talloze jonge dichters, zoals Hafez, Rumi en Saadi, over een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van het huidige Turkije, Azerbeidzjan, Armenië, Georgië, Iran, Afghanistan, oezbekistan, Tadzjikistan, Pakistan, India. De essays dit boek zorgen voor een nieuwe kijk op de 'Khamsa'. Zij richten zich op onderwerpen als mystiek, kunstgeschiedenis, vergelijkende literatuur, wetenschap en filosofie. Ze laten zien hoe de klassieke Griekse kennis zich op een unieke manier vermengde met het Perzische verleden en de islamitische cultuur. Dit boek is onmisbaar voor de specialisten op het gebied van Perzische literatuur, maar ook goed leesbaar voor de geïnteresseerd leek.
Note:
Includes 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 present-day Azerbaijan.
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Nizāmī's World Order / J.-Christoph Bürgel --
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The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn / Leili Anvar --
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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 / Gabrielle van den Berg --
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Nizāmī's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life/ Mario Casari --
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Drinking from the Water of Life -- Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature / Patrick Franke --
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The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī's Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād / Angelo Michele Piemontese --
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What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories? / Christine van Ruymbeke --
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The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī's Iqbāl Nāma / Carlo Saccone --
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A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar / Asghar Seyed-Gohrab --
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The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History / Priscilla Soucek and Muhammad Isa Waley --
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Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry / Kamran Talattof --
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Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar / Ziva Vesel --
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"Let Even a Cat Win Your Heart!" Nizāmī on Animal and Man / Renate Würsch.
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Text in English with excerpts in Arabic.
Additional Edition:
Print version: A key to the treasure of the Hakīm Leiden : Leiden University Press, c2011. ISBN 9789087280970
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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