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

Johann Christoph Bürgel; Christine Ruymbeke

doi:10.1515/9789400600140

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Edition: 1/2011
Copyright Year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-097-0
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0014-0
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Series: Iranian Studies Series
Language: English
Pages: 306
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. Contents
2. Acknowledgment
Introduction “A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm”Pages 9 - 16
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1 Nizāmī’s World OrderPages 17 - 52
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2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u MajnūnPages 53 - 76
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3 Descriptions and Images – Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizāmī’s Iskandar Nāma, Firdawsī’s Shāh Nāma and Amīr Khusraw’s A’īna-yi IskandarīPages 77 - 94
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4 Nizāmī’s Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of LifePages 95 - 106
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5 Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate LiteraturePages 107 - 126
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6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī’s Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and SindbādPages 127 - 144
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7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories?Pages 145 - 166
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8 The “Wasteland” and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī’s Iqbāl NāmaPages 167 - 180
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9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī’s Use of Nature in the Haft PaykarPages 181 - 194
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10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed HistoryPages 195 - 210
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11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian PoetryPages 211 - 244
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12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft PaykarPages 245 - 252
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13 “Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!” Nizāmī on Animal and ManPages 253 - 266
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Illustrations to Chapter 10Pages 267 - 274 Download chapter (PDF)
BibliographyPages 275 - 290 Download chapter (PDF)
IndexPages 291 - 304 Download chapter (PDF)
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