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PublisherAmsterdam University Press

ISBN-109087280971

ISBN-139789087280970

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Number of Pages306 Pages

Publication NameKey to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

SubjectMiddle Eastern, Persian, Poetry

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorChristine Van Ruymbeke

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Foreign Language Study

SeriesIranian Studies Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length37.2 in

Item Width37.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsThe list of the authors is representative of the international studies on Niz'mi at the present moment. If only for this reason, the appearance of this rich and many-sided volume of essays is of the greatest importance.Johannes Thomas Pieter de Bruijn, Professor Emeritus of Persian at the University of Leiden.

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Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgment 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 Iskandari 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. Illustrations to Chapter 10 Bibliography Index Already published in the Iranian Studies Series:

SynopsisThis "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., This volume consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja (1141-1209). The cycle's heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, and Iskandar, have become household names all over the Islamic world. Considering the work from such perspectives as art history, comparative literature, science, philosophy, and mysticism, the contributors revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work. Appropriate for both specialists and anyone interested in the movement of ideas through the medieval world, Nizami is a major contribution to the study of one of the most important figures in classical Persian literature.

LC Classification NumberPT5001-5980GN400-40