The prince and the Sufi : : the Judeo-Persian rendition of the Buddha biographies /

The prince and the Sufi : : the Judeo-Persian rendition of the Buddha biographies / / by Dalia Yasharpour.

"The Prince and the Sufi is the literary composition of the seventeenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Elisha ben Shmūel. In The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour provides a thorough analysis of this popular work to show how the Buddha...

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Yasharpour, Dalia,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The poet, his works & literary analysis of the JP composition
  • 1. The JP poet in the context of history
  • 2. Compositions
  • 3. The Buddha biographies and their transmission
  • 4. The Hebrew rendition and Its connection to the JP composition
  • 5. Other literary precedents
  • 6. Genre
  • 7. Major themes and motifs
  • 8. Structure
  • 9. Language
  • 10. Manuscripts.

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