Nezami Ganjavi And Classical Persian Literature

Author : Kamran Talattof
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030979904

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Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature by Kamran Talattof Pdf

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial allegory and his profound conceptualization of poetry, rhetoric, and eloquence. It employs several theoretical and methodological approaches to clarify the nature of his artistic approach to poetry. Chapters explore Nezami’s understanding of rhetoric and literature as Sakhon, his interest in literary genres, the diversity of themes explored in his Five Treasures, the sources of Nezami’s creativity, and his literary devices. Exploring themes such as love, religion, science, wine, gender, and philosophy, this study compares Nezami’s works to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, Rudaki, and others. The book argues that Nezami’s main concern was to weave poetry rather than to promote any specific ideology.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137098368

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The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi by NA NA Pdf

The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years. The dominant discourse encourages the reading of the texts in light of biographical or theological conventions and religious motives. These essays explore Nizami s influential role and his portrayal of issues related to love, women, and science, stressing his preoccupation with the art of speech as a major impetus behind his literary activity.

Author : Siavash Lornejad,Ali Doostzadeh
Publisher : CCIS
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 9789993069744

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ON THE MODERN POLITICIZATION OF THE PERSIAN POET NEZAMI GANJAVI by Siavash Lornejad,Ali Doostzadeh Pdf

Author : Nezami Ganjavi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780525505778

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Layli and Majnun by Nezami Ganjavi Pdf

The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.

Author : Nizami
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781624664465

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Haft Paykar by Nizami Pdf

"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami’s verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance." —Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement

Author : Samuel Robinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385346826

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Persian Poetry for English Readers. Being Specimens of Six of the Greatest Classical Poets of Persia: Ferdusī, Nizāmī, Sādi, Jelāl-ad-Dīn Rūmī, Hāfiz, and Jāmī, with Biographical Notices and Notes by Samuel Robinson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Kamran Talattof
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351341738

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Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature by Kamran Talattof Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical, and Late Classical Persian Literature contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from 650 BCE through the 16th century CE. It includes analyses of some seminal ancient texts and the works of numerous authors of the classical period. The chapters apply a disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to the many movements, genres, and works of the long and evolving body of Persian literature produced in the Persianate World. These collections of scholarly essays and samples of Persian literary texts provide facts (general information), instructions (ways to understand, analyze, and appreciate this body of works), and the field’s state-of-the-art research (the problematics of the topics) regarding one of the most important and oldest literary traditions in the world. Thus, the Handbook’s chapters and related texts provide scholars, students, and admirers of Persian poetry and prose with practical and direct access to the intricacies of the Persian literary world through a chronological account of key moments in the formation of this enduring literary tradition. The related Handbook (also edited by Kamran Talattof ), Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature, covers Persian literary works from the 17th century to the present.

Author : Samuel Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004673542

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Persian Poetry for English Readers by Samuel Robinson Pdf

Author : Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004492431

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Laylī and Majnūn by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezāmī's romance Laylī and Majnūn (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnūn's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Laylī lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezāmī's style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.

Author : Nizami
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781857826104

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Layla and Majnun - The Classic Love Story of Persian Literature by Nizami Pdf

Writing nearly 1000 years ago, Nizami captures the lightness of heart that falling in love can bring, the thrill of shared affection, the sorrows of separation, the pains of jealousy and the grief that comes with loss. Nizami inspired rock star, Eric Clapton, to write his song "Layla".

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312228104

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The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi by NA NA Pdf

The work of Nizami Ganjavi, a classical poet of the twelfth century, is fueling new cultural debate in Iran in recent years. The dominant discourse encourages the reading of the texts in light of biographical or theological conventions and religious motives. These essays explore Nizami s influential role and his portrayal of issues related to love, women, and science, stressing his preoccupation with the art of speech as a major impetus behind his literary activity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838609597

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The Persian Alexander by Anonim Pdf

Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was to capture the imagination of his contemporaries and future generations. His image abounds in various cultures and literatures - Eastern and Western - and spread around the globe through oral and literary media at an astonishing rate during late antiquity and the early Islamic period. The first Iskandarnama, or 'The Book of Alexander', now held in a private collection in Tehran, is the oldest prose version of the Alexander romance in the Persian tradition. Thought to have been written at some point between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries by an unknown author, the lively narrative recasts Alexander as Iskandar, a Muslim champion - a king and prophet, albeit flawed but heroic, and remarkably appropriated to Islam, though the historic Alexander lived and died some 1,000 years before the birth of the faith. This new English translation of the under-studied text is the first to be presented unabridged and sheds fresh light onto the shape and structure of this vital document.In so doing it invites a reconsideration of the transformation of a Western historical figure - and one-time mortal enemy of Persia - into a legendary hero adopted by Iranian historiographic myth-making. Evangelos Venetis, the translator, also offers a textual analysis, providing much-needed context and explanations on both content and subsequent reception. This landmark publication will be invaluable to students and scholars of classical Persian literature, ancient and medieval history and Middle East studies, as well as to anyone studying the Alexander tradition.

Author : A. J. Arberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315452722

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Routledge Revivals: Classical Persian Literature (1958) by A. J. Arberry Pdf

First published in 1958, this work by one of Britain’s most celebrated Orientalist scholars, tells the story of the rebirth of national literature in Persia after the fall of the Sᾱsᾱnian empire in the seventh century. It traces the course of this literature’s development and full maturity from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century and looks at a number of important writers including the Saljῡq poets, Rῡmῑ, ῌᾱfiz and Jᾱmῑ. This work will be of interest to those studying Persian and Middle-Eastern literature and history.

Author : Nezami Ganjavi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949445631

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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 : J.T.P. Bruijn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857736505

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General Introduction to Persian Literature by J.T.P. Bruijn Pdf

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience. It includes extensive, revealing examples with contributions by prominent scholars who bring a fresh critical approach to bear on this important topic.The first volume offers an indispensable entree to Persian literature's long and rich history, examining themes and subjects that are common to many fields of Persian literary study. This invaluable introduction to the subject heralds a definitive and ground-breaking new series.