A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa / / editors, Johan Christoph Bürgel, Christine van Ruymbeke.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ruymbeke, C. van; Bürgel, J. Christoph.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Leiden University Press,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages) :; illustrations.

Includes thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan.

Table of Contents

Introduction "A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim" -- 1. Nizami's World Order -- 2. The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Layli u Majnun -- 3. Descriptions and Images - Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizami's Iskandar Nama,Firdawsi's Shah Nama and Amir Khusraw's A'ina-yi -- 4 Nizami's Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life -- 5. Drinking from the Water of Life - Nizami, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature --

6. The Enigma of Turandot in Nizami's Pentad. Azada and Bahram between Esther and Sindbad -- 7. What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila-Dimna stories? -- 8. The "Wasteland" and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizami's Iqbal Nama -- 9. A Mystical Reading of Nizami's Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar -- 10. The Nizami Manuscript of Shah Tahmasp: A Reconstructed History -- 11. Nizami Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry -- 12. Teucros in Nizami's Haft Paykar -- 13. "Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!" Nizami on Animal and Man.