A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa
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A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa
(Iranian studies series / chief editor, A.A. Seyed-Gohrab)
Leiden University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
Table of Contents
A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim - 2 Contents - 6 Acknowledgment - 8 Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim" - 10 1 Nizami's World Order - 18 2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Layli u Majnun - 54 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 - 78 4 Nizami's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life - 96 5 Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizami, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature - 108 6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizami's Pentad. Azada and Bahram between Esther and Sindbad - 128 7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila-Dimna stories? - 146 8 The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizami's Iqbal Nama - 168 9 A Mystical Reading of Nizami's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar - 182 10 The Nizami Manuscript of Shah Tahmasp: A Reconstructed History - 196 11 Nizami Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry - 212 12 Teucros in Nizami's Haft Paykar - 246 13 "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizami on Animal and Man. - 254 Illustrations to Chapter 10 - 268 Bibliography - 276 Index - 292 Already published in the Iranian Studies Series: - 306
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