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Record Nr.

UNISA996197839603316

Titolo

A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa / / editors, Johan Christoph Bürgel, Christine van Ruymbeke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Leiden University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-23195-6

9786613231956

94-006-0014-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Iranian studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

RuymbekeC. van (Christine van)

BürgelJ. Christoph

Disciplina

891.5511

Soggetti

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.