A key to the treasure of the Hakīm artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419782406719 |
Table of 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.
