The Picture Gallery (Nigāristān) : A Persian Moral Miscellany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Juvainī, Muʿīn al-Dīn Muʿīnī.

Contributor:

Bruce, Gregory Maxwell.

Rehatsek, Edward.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first English translation of Nigāristān: a major work of Persian literature.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Editor's Acknowledgements

Editor's Note on Rehatsek's Transliterations

Editor's Note on the Introduction, Annotations and Appendices

Editor's Introduction

The Negaristân (The Picture Gallery)

Translator's Preface

Table of Contents

I. On Generous Behaviour

II. On Ascetism and Piety

III. On Laudable Conviviality

IV. On Love and Amorousness

V. On Preaching and Advice

VI. On Virtue and Mercy

VII. Various Admonitions

Appendix 1: Preface by Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot to the Unpublished New Oriental Translation Fund Edition

Appendix 2: Editor's Glossary of Names and Terms

Editor's Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4744-9257-6

OCLC:

1524423903