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A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Iranian Studies SeriesPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789400600140
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Key to the Treasure of the HakimDDC classification:
  • 891.5511
LOC classification:
  • PT5001-5980GN400-40
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm" -- 1 Nizāmī's World Order -- 2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn -- 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 -- 4 Nizāmī's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life -- 5 Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature -- 6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī's Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād -- 7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories? -- 8 The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī's Iqbāl Nāma -- 9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar -- 10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History -- 11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry -- 12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar -- 13 "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizāmī on Animal and Man. -- Illustrations to Chapter 10 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm" -- 1 Nizāmī's World Order -- 2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn -- 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 -- 4 Nizāmī's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life -- 5 Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature -- 6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī's Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād -- 7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories? -- 8 The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī's Iqbāl Nāma -- 9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar -- 10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History -- 11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry -- 12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar -- 13 "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizāmī on Animal and Man. -- Illustrations to Chapter 10 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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