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The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi

Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric

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  1. Kamran Talattof
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  2. Jerome W. Clinton
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Nizami Ganjavi and His Poetry

    • Kamran Talattof, Jerome W. Clinton
    Pages 1-13

  3. A Comparison of Nizami’s Layli and Majnun and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

    • Jerome W. Clinton
    Pages 15-27

  4. Layla Grows Up: Nizami’s Layla and Majnun “in The Turkish Manner”

    • Mehmed Kalpaklī, Walter G. Andrews
    Pages 29-49

  5. Nizami’s Unlikely Heroines: A Study of the Characterizations of Women in Classical Persian Literature

    • Kamran Talattof
    Pages 51-81

  6. Majnun’s Image as a Serpent

    • Asghar Abu Gohrab
    Pages 83-95

  7. The Historian and the Poet: Rāvandī, Nizami, and the Rhetoric of History

    • Julie Scott Meisami
    Pages 97-128

  8. Occult Sciences in The Iskandarnameh of Nizami

    • J. Christoph Bürgel
    Pages 129-139

  9. Nizami’s Poetry Versus Scientific Knowledge: The Case of the Pomegranate

    • Christine van Ruymbeke
    Pages 141-162

  10. Music in Khusraw Va Shirin

    • Firoozeh Khazrai
    Pages 163-178

  11. The Story of the Ascension (Mi’raj) in Nizami’s Work

    • C.-H. De Fouchécour
    Pages 179-188

  12. International Recognition of Nizami’s Work: A Bibliography

    • Kamran Talattof
    Pages 189-204

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 205-210
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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.

About the authors

Kamran Talattof is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.

Jerome W. Clinton is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

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