Khosrow And Shirin

Author : Nezami Ganjavi
Publisher : Mage Publishers
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949445749

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Khosrow and Shirin by Nezami Ganjavi Pdf

Khosrow and Shirin is a love story by Nezami Ganjavi--considered the greatest medieval Persian romance poet--based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court. Written 850 years ago, the narrative poem is presented here for the first time in a stunning modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis, the pre-eminent translator of Persian poetry. The love between an Iranian prince (Khosrow) and an Armenian princess (Shirin) is at the center of this tumultuous tale in which the exigencies of politics and warfare intertwine with no less powerful forces of erotic desire and the quest for personal and spiritual fulfilment. Nezami vividly dramatizes the clash between heroism and sensuality as they are pitted against the desire for the amenities of order and humane civilization. These marvelously presented discordant themes result in a complex love story based on conflicting concepts of love, one regarding the beloved as a prize to be conquered and possessed, the other unrequited and all-consuming, relishing the very notion of the annihilation of the self through love. Davis has captured the energy and poetry of Nezami's original in a delightful, contemporary idiom, and given us a story to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its luminous lyrical mastery. Davis's superb introduction and textual commentary provide insightful background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Davis's translation. Khosrow and Shirin will enchant both the classicist and the general reader, to captivate a new audience for Nezami's masterpiece.

Author : Ahmad Shahvary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1490327223

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Khosrow, Shirin and Farhad in Persian Literature by Ahmad Shahvary Pdf

The Story of Shirin and Farhad and Khosrow Parviz is one of the sweet story in literature and culture of Iranians. There are different narrations of the tale. The timing of history is in the last glorious king of Sassanid; the king who brought catastrophe to the said dynasty and Iran since after him within five year the dynasty collapsed and Iran defeated badly in war imposed by Arabs the most horrible event in history of Iran, region and the world of culture and politics. The whole history is brought in Shahnameh, the great work of Ferdowsi though he has narrated the story from other documents that were accessible in his time but now we know just their name such Shahnameh in prose by Abu Mansouri. After Ferdowsi, many poets narrated part or whole of the story among which two are very important: Nezami The great poet of Iran, and Vahshi Bafqi, another eminent poet of Iran. In this book, parts of the story which are narrated by these three poets is brought as well the description of those other poets that have narrated whole or parts of the story.

Author : Firdawsī
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0670034851

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Shahnameh by Firdawsī Pdf

A new translation of the late-tenth-century Persian epic follows its story of pre-Islamic Iran's mythic time of Creation through the seventh-century Arab invasion, tracing ancient Persia's incorporation into an expanding Islamic empire. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Peter J. Chelkowski
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian
ISBN : 9780870991424

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Mirror of the Invisible World by Peter J. Chelkowski Pdf

In this volume three stories from Persian poem the Khamseh - "Khosrow and Shirin," "Layla and Majnum," and "The Seven Princesses" - have been told with abridgement in prose. They are augmented by color reproductions of Persian miniatures based on an early 16th manuscript dated 1524/25.

Author : Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi,Jahan Malek Khatun,Obayd-e Zakani
Publisher : Mage Publishers
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949445596

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Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz by Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi,Jahan Malek Khatun,Obayd-e Zakani Pdf

Author : Baba Tahir
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1790678390

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Divan of Baba Tahir by Baba Tahir Pdf

Author : J. Christoph Bürgel,Christine van Ruymbeke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2019667773

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A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm by J. Christoph Bürgel,Christine van Ruymbeke Pdf

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.

Author : Ferdowsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780415608527

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The Epic of the Kings (Rle Iran A) by Ferdowsi Pdf

âe~Among the many national poets of historical Persia, Ferdowsi is perhaps the greatest...In this superb translation of the epic, the Western reader would not fail to discern clear equivalents of chapters in Genesis, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost or the Canterbury Tales.âe(tm) Islamic Review The Shah-nama is the national epic poem of Persia. Written in the tenth century it contains the countryâe(tm)s myths, legends and historic reminiscences. This edition makes available a valuable prose translation selecting the most representative parts of the original including the stories of Rustum, the giant hero and his son Sohrab.

Author : Daniel Nayeri
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646140022

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Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri Pdf

A National Indie Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year A New York Times Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editors' Choice A BookPage Best Book of the Year A NECBA Windows & Mirrors Selection A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year A Today.com Best of the Year PRAISE "A modern masterpiece." —The New York Times Book Review "Supple, sparkling and original." —The Wall Street Journal "Mesmerizing." —TODAY.com "This book could change the world." —BookPage "Like nothing else you've read or ever will read." —Linda Sue Park "It hooks you right from the opening line." —NPR SEVEN STARRED REVIEWS ★ "A modern epic." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ "A rare treasure of a book." —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ "A story that soars." —The Bulletin, starred review ★ "At once beautiful and painful." —School Library Journal, starred review ★ "Raises the literary bar in children's lit." —Booklist, starred review ★ "Poignant and powerful." —Foreword Reviews, starred review ★ "One of the most extraordinary books of the year." —BookPage, starred review A sprawling, evocative, and groundbreaking autobiographical novel told in the unforgettable and hilarious voice of a young Iranian refugee. It is a powerfully layered novel that poses the questions: Who owns the truth? Who speaks it? Who believes it? "A patchwork story is the shame of the refugee," Nayeri writes early in the novel. In an Oklahoman middle school, Khosrou (whom everyone calls Daniel) stands in front of a skeptical audience of classmates, telling the tales of his family's history, stretching back years, decades, and centuries. At the core is Daniel's story of how they became refugees—starting with his mother's vocal embrace of Christianity in a country that made such a thing a capital offense, and continuing through their midnight flight from the secret police, bribing their way onto a plane-to-anywhere. Anywhere becomes the sad, cement refugee camps of Italy, and then finally asylum in the U.S. Implementing a distinct literary style and challenging western narrative structures, Nayeri deftly weaves through stories of the long and beautiful history of his family in Iran, adding a richness of ancient tales and Persian folklore. Like Scheherazade of One Thousand and One Nights in a hostile classroom, Daniel spins a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story) is a tale of heartbreak and resilience and urges readers to speak their truth and be heard.

Author : Rabe`eh Balkhi
Publisher : Mage Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949445602

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The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women by Rabe`eh Balkhi Pdf

One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Author : Jyotsna Lal
Publisher : BFC Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789359925318

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Bahar. A Girl Calld Spring by Jyotsna Lal Pdf

Bahar, is a teenage Iranian girl whose name means Spring, Bahar is living and growing up in modern Tehran, where hijab is mandatory. when Her boyfriend is killed in the student uprisingagainst the government. To protect her, she is sent to study in Allahabad university. In India, she makes friends with students from different states, becomes a ninja fighter, helps to catch Iranian drug smugglers in Sidney Australia, Bahar and collegemates trek up the chamoli hills to search for their missing friend Adventures of the Iranian girl Bahar are like the flight of piegons in the blue bright sky free and unrestrained.

Author : Mohsen Ashtiany
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786726582

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Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres by Mohsen Ashtiany Pdf

The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezâmi Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present.

Author : Fen Gao,Qiang Li
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813202979

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Silk Road: The Study Of Drama Culture by Fen Gao,Qiang Li Pdf

Silk Road: The Study of Drama Culture is the translated edition of the Chinese academic book of the same title written by Professor LI Qiang from Shaanxi Normal University, China. The book breaks through the concept of regarding Han Drama as the center, yet elaborates the Silk Road drama as an inclusive culture and a prevailing literary art form in human civilization. Relying on his extensive experience and broad vision, the author conducts the thorough study by means of literature, artifacts and academic fieldwork. The book studies the drama culture of all ethnic groups from Asia, Europe and Africa and touches upon the cultural exchanges between China and its neighboring countries, between the East and the West. The carefully presented details in this book are aimed to explore all the related fields such as dramaturgy, philology, phonology, religion, history, geography, archeology, ethnology, and folklore between the East and the West from the perspective of cultural anthropology. The explanations in the book contribute to an in-depth study on the origins of the Silk Road and the drama culture along the Silk Road.

Author : Firdausi
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783986778163

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The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia by Firdausi Pdf

The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia Firdausi - The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (The Shahnameh) is an epic poem by the Persian poet Firdausi, written between 966 and 1010 AD. Telling the past of the Persian empire, using a mix of the mythical and historical, it is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Not only important to the Persian culture, it is also important to modern day followers of the Zoroastrianism religion. It is said that the poem was Firdausi's efforts to preserve the memory of Persia's golden days, following the fall of the Sassanid empire. The poem contains, among others, mentions of the romance of Zal and Rudba, Alexander the Great, the wars with Afrsyb, and the romance of Bijan and Manijeh.

Author : Shahriar Mandanipour
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307271969

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Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour Pdf

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “One of Iran's most important living fiction writers” (The Guardian) shows what it’s like to live and love there today. "A haunting portrait of life in the Islamic Republic of Iran." —The New York Times In a country where mere proximity between a man and a woman may be the prologue to deadly sin, where illicit passion is punished by imprisonment, or even death, telling that most redemptive of human narratives becomes the greatest literary challenge. If conducting a love affair in modern Iran is not a simple undertaking, then telling the story of that love may be even more difficult. Shahriar Mandanipour (author of Moon Brow) evokes a pair of young lovers who find each other—despite surreal persecution and repressive parents—through coded messages and internet chat rooms; and triumphantly their story entwines with an account of their creator’s struggle. Inventive, darkly comic and profoundly touching, Censoring an Iranian Love Story celebrates both the unquenchable power of the written word and a love that is doomed, glorious, and utterly real.