Nezami Ganjavi and classical Persian literature : demystifying the mystic / Kamran Talattof.
Talattof, Kamran, author.
2022
PK6406
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Title Nezami Ganjavi and classical Persian literature : demystifying the mystic / Kamran Talattof.
Author Talattof, Kamran, author.
ISBN 9783030979904 (electronic bk.)
3030979903 (electronic bk.)
9783030979898
303097989X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97990-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-97990-4 doi
Call Number PK6406
Dewey Decimal Classification 891/.5511
Summary This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezamis poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezamis 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 Nezamis understanding of rhetoric and literature as Sakhon, his interest in literary genres, the diversity of themes explored in his Five Treasures, the sources of Nezamis creativity, and his literary devices. Exploring themes such as love, religion, science, wine, gender, and philosophy, this study compares Nezamis works to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, Rudaki, and others. The book argues that Nezamis main concern was to weave poetry rather than to promote any specific ideology. Kamran Talattof is Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and affiliated with the Department of Gender and Womens Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He is also the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies. He has published widely across literature (modern and classical), Iranian and Middle Eastern culture, history and cinema, as well as Persian language pedagogy and translation.
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Series Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
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4. Faith, Facts, and Fantasy: Stories of Ascension and Nezamian Allegory
5. Wine and Identity in the Works of Nezami and Rudaki
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7. In Search of Religion and Dantean Moments in "The Story of Mahan"
8. Sublime Metier, Literary Techniques, and Allegory.

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