Haft Paykar

Haft Paykar PDF Author: Nizami
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624664466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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"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

Haft Paykar

Haft Paykar PDF Author: Nizami
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624664466
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Book Description
"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

The Haft Paikar

The Haft Paikar PDF Author: Nizami Of Ganja
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494117085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

A Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Manuscripts Including Also Some Turkish and Arabic Presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York by Alexander Smith Cochran

A Catalogue of the Collection of Persian Manuscripts Including Also Some Turkish and Arabic Presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York by Alexander Smith Cochran PDF Author: A. V. Williams Jackson
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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A collection of manuscripts—twenty of them Persian, two Eastern Turkish, and two Arabic—was presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in March, 1913, by Mr. Alexander Smith Cochran, of Yonkers, New York. This publication provides insight into the authors of these texts and unpacks the painstakingly rendered imagery in these beautiful manuscript illustrations.

The Seven Pavilions

The Seven Pavilions PDF Author: Petra Martin Al-Awadhi
Publisher: Olschki
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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On the epic by the great poet Nezami, the Haft Paikar, part of the Khamseh, or Quintet, and its subsequent transcription into a 16th-century Shirazi manuscript.

Shahnama Studies II

Shahnama Studies II PDF Author: Charles Melville
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004228632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This volume explores different aspects of the reception of Firdausi’s Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, both within Iran and in neighbouring lands. Later poets and writers not only looked to Firdausi’s work for a model, but supplemented its stories with other narratives or absorbed the characters and the moral values of the poem into their own works. Several chapters focus on the literary traditions fed by the Shahnama, including reports of the continuing oral performances of its more popular stories. Others discuss Firdausi’s impact on the creative imagination of the miniature painters who illustrated manuscript copies of the Shahnama in the courts of the Ottoman Empire, Moghul India, and the Central Asia Khanates up till the seventeenth century. Contributors include Gabrielle van den Berg, Francesca Leoni, Farhad Mehran, Bilha Moor, Adeela Qureshi, Ravshan Rahmoni, Julia Rubanovich, Karin Ruehrdanz, Jan Schmidt, Ivan Steblin-Kamenski, Zeren Tanindi, Lâle Uluç, Evangelos Venetis, Olga Yastrebova, and Marjolijn van Zutphen.

The Sight of Semiramis

The Sight of Semiramis PDF Author: Alison Laura Patrice Beringer
Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
ISBN: 9780866985420
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Beginning with Diodorus Siculus's first-century BCE account and extending to early modern German Meisterlieder, this book explores the plethora of narratives about the ancient Babylonian queen Semiramis. The selected texts, most from continental Europe, cover a range of genres and languages. Organized thematically around issues of visual communication -- acts of seeing and being seen -- this study highlights the narrative fluidity in the matière de Sémiramide, ultimately revealing a figure of excess and surplus that defies classification and categorization. In its thematic focus, this study also draws on the competitive yet complementary relationship between the visual and the verbal.

A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary

A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary PDF Author: D. N. Mackenzie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136613951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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First published in 2004. The purpose of this dictionary is to provide the student with a representative vocabulary of Pahlavi in which such uncertain words have been reduced to a minimum and marked. It includes the commonest 4,000 simple words.

Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition. Two Characters: Farhad and Turandot

Materials for a History of the Persian Narrative Tradition. Two Characters: Farhad and Turandot PDF Author: Paola Orsatti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788869693557
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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In the Bazaar of Love

In the Bazaar of Love PDF Author: Paul E Losensky
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184755228
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Book Description
Amir Khusrau, one of the greatest poets of medieval India, helped forge a distinctive synthesis of Muslim and Hindu cultures. Written in Persian and Hindavi, his poems and ghazals were appreciated across a cosmopolitan Persianate world that stretched from Turkey to Bengal. Having thrived for centuries, Khusrau’s poetry continues to be read and recited to this day. In the Bazaar of Love is the first comprehensive selection of Khusrau’s work, offering new translations of mystical and romantic poems and fresh renditions of old favourites. Covering a wide range of genres and forms, it evokes the magic of one of the best-loved poets of the Indian subcontinent.

Literacy in the Persianate World

Literacy in the Persianate World PDF Author: Brian Spooner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1934536563
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed—first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and from the northern branches of the Silk Road in Central Asia to southern India under the Mughal Empire. Its history is therefore crucial for understanding the function of writing in world history. Each of the chapters of Literacy in the Persianate World opens a window onto a particular stage of this history, starting from the reemergence of Persian in the Arabic script after the Arab-Islamic conquest in the seventh century A.D., through the establishment of its administrative vocabulary, its literary tradition, its expansion as the language of trade in the thirteenth century, and its adoption by the British imperial administration in India, before being reduced to the modern role of national language in three countries (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan) in the twentieth century. Two concluding chapters compare the history of written Persian with the parallel histories of Chinese and Latin, with special attention to the way its use was restricted and channeled by social practice. This is the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, providing an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. The editors take full advantage of this opportunity in their introductory essay.