In this Book

A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim
buy this book Buy This Book in Print
summary
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

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. open access Download |
  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-4
  3. open access Download |
  1. Contents
  2. pp. 5-6
  3. open access Download |
  1. Acknowledgment
  2. pp. 7-8
  3. open access Download |
  1. Introduction “A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm”
  2. Christine van Ruymbeke
  3. pp. 9-16
  4. open access Download |
  1. 1. Nizāmī’s World Order
  2. J.-Christoph Bürgel
  3. pp. 17-52
  4. open access Download |
  1. 2. The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn
  2. Leili Anvar
  3. pp. 53-76
  4. open access Download |
  1. 3. Descriptions and Images – Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizāmī’s Iskandar Nāma, Firdawsī’s Shāh Nāma, and Amīr Khusraw’s A’īna-yi Iskandarī
  2. Gabrielle van den Berg
  3. pp. 77-94
  4. open access Download |
  1. 4. Nizāmī’s Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life
  2. Mario Casari
  3. pp. 95-106
  4. open access Download |
  1. 5. Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature
  2. Patrick Franke
  3. pp. 107-126
  4. open access Download |
  1. 6. The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī’s Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād
  2. Angelo Michele Piemontese
  3. pp. 127-144
  4. open access Download |
  1. 7. What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories?
  2. Christine van Ruymbeke
  3. pp. 145-166
  4. open access Download |
  1. 8 .The “Wasteland” and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī’s Iqbāl Nāma
  2. Carlo Saccone
  3. pp. 167-180
  4. open access Download |
  1. 9. A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī’s Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar
  2. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
  3. pp. 181-194
  4. open access Download |
  1. 10. The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History
  2. Priscilla Soucek, Muhammad Isa Waley
  3. pp. 195-210
  4. open access Download |
  1. 11. Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry
  2. Kamran Talattof
  3. pp. 211-244
  4. open access Download |
  1. 12. Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar
  2. Ziva Vesel
  3. pp. 245-252
  4. open access Download |
  1. 13. “Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!” Nizāmī on Animal and Man.
  2. Renate Würsch
  3. pp. 253-266
  4. open access Download |
  1. Illustrations to Chapter 10
  2. pp. 267-274
  3. open access Download |
  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 275-290
  3. open access Download |
  1. Index
  2. pp. 291-304
  3. open access Download |
  1. Already published in the Iranian Studies Series
  2. p. 305
  3. open access Download |

Additional Information

ISBN
9789400600140
Related ISBN
9789087280970
MARC Record
Download
OCLC
966803154
Pages
306
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes

Purchase

buy this book (opens new window)Buy This Book in Print

Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.