A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa / / editors, Johan Christoph Bürgel, Christine van Ruymbeke.
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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Leiden University Press,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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.