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



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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 Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Leiden : , : Leiden University Press, , 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 891.5511
Soggetto topico: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian
Soggetto non controllato: Classical Persian Literature, Persian Poetry, Nizami
Altri autori: RuymbekeC. van (Christine van)  
BürgelJ. Christoph  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A key to the treasure of the Hakīm  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-23195-6
9786613231956
94-006-0014-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996197839603316
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Serie: Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)