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A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa / editors, Johan Christoph Bürgel, Christine van Ruymbeke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- , Leiden University Press, Author.
- Series:
- Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
- Iranian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203--Criticism and interpretation.
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī.
- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- Text in English
- Biography/History:
- Bürgel Johann Christoph : Johann-Christoph Bürgel is professor emeritus of Islamic studies at Bern University and has received several prizes for his Nizami translations.Ruymbeke Christine : Dr. Christine van Ruymbeke is Soudavar Lecturer in Persian Studies aan Cambridge University.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim"
- 1. Nizami's World Order
- 2. The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Layli u Majnun
- 3. Descriptions and Images - Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizami's Iskandar Nama,Firdawsi's Shah Nama and Amir Khusraw's A'ina-yi
- 4 Nizami's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life
- 5. Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizami, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature
- 6. The Enigma of Turandot in Nizami's Pentad. Azada and Bahram between Esther and Sindbad
- 7. What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila-Dimna stories?
- 8. The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizami's Iqbal Nama
- 9. A Mystical Reading of Nizami's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar
- 10. The Nizami Manuscript of Shah Tahmasp: A Reconstructed History
- 11. Nizami Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry
- 12. Teucros in Nizami's Haft Paykar
- 13. "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizami on Animal and Man.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Cover title.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613231956
- 9781283231954
- 1283231956
- 9789400600140
- 9400600143
- OCLC:
- 746747225
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613231956
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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