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Laylī and Majnūn

Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Laylī and Majnūn

Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezāmī's romance Laylī and Majnūn (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnūn's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Laylī lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezāmī's style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.

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9004492437

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

This book examines and contextualizes Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s (d. 505/1111) fierce response to antinomian and freethinking currents in twelfth-century Persia. Seyed-Gohrab offers a translation of Ghazzālī’s treatise on antinomians, and one of his religious rulings (fatwa) on the topic. Both were written after Ghazzālī’s intellectual crisis in 488/1095, when he voluntarily withdrew from his position as a Professor at the prestigious Niẓāmiyya College in Baghdad. He determined to live an ascetic life, devoting all his attention to God. In this period, Ghazzālī wrote his masterpieces in Arabic and Persian. Seyed-Gohrab shows that these two less-known works shed new light on the motivation for Ghazzālī's major works. The book depicts Ghazzālī’s Persian intellectual context, and the tumultuous political period in which a strong literary and Sufi antinomian trend emerged from the social periphery to become central to literary activities at the Saljuq court. The book also treats Ghazzālī’s Persian poetry, offering original insights into Ghazzālī’s contemporary, the celebrated polymath ʿUmar Khayyām (d. about 525/1131), whose transgressive quatrains are interpreted as a response to a suffocating religious context.

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Laylī and Majnūn

Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance

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Safina Revealed

A Compendium of Persian Literature in 14th-century Tabriz

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab,Sen McGlinn

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Safina Revealed

A Compendium of Persian Literature in 14th-century Tabriz

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab,Sen McGlinn

The Safina is a massive, well preserved manuscript from 14th-century Tabriz in Persia, a centre for learning and cultural activities including manuscript production and illumination. Containing 209 works in Persian and Arabic, it is a complete treasure-house between two covers. The texts in the compendium show the canon of learning for a man of letters in the Islamic world. It covers prophetic traditions, ethics, mysticism, jurisprudence, theology, exegesis, history, grammar, literature and literary criticism, philosophy, astronomy and astrology, geomancy, mineralogy, mathematics, medicine, music, cosmography and geography. For the first time, Safina Revealed introduces diverse aspects of this compendium. Safina Revealed contains fourteen articles each revolving around a specific topic, explaining its importance in the cultural and literary milieu of the 14th-century Islamic world.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9087280882

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī's Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Of Piety and Heresy

Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī's Persian Treatises on Antinomians

By: Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

This study examines and contextualizes Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī's (d. 1111 C.E.) fierce response to antinomian and freethinking currents in twelfth-century Persia. Seyed-Gohrab offers a translation of Ghazzālī's treatise on antinomians, and one of his religious rulings (fatwa) on the topic. Both were written after Ghazzālī's intellectual crisis in 488/1095, when he voluntarily withdrew from his position as a Professor at the prestigious Niẓāmiyya College in Baghdad. He determined to live an ascetic life, devoting all his attention to God. In this period, Ghazzālī wrote his masterpieces in Arabic and Persian. Seyed-Gohrab shows that these two less-known works shed new light on the motivation for Ghazzālī's major works. The book depicts Ghazzālī's Persian intellectual context, and the tumultuous political period in which a strong literary and Sufi antinomian trend emerged from the social periphery to become central to literary activities at the Saljuq court. The book also treats Ghazzālī's Persian poetry, offering original insights into Ghazzālī's contemporary, the celebrated polymath Omar Khayyam (d. about 525/1131), whose transgressive quatrains are interpreted as a response to a suffocating religious context.

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3111446921

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Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature and Internet Texts

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab,Faustina Doufikar-Aerts,Sen McGlinn

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Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature and Internet Texts

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab,Faustina Doufikar-Aerts,Sen McGlinn

Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian traditions, to contemporary internet texts: all use these imaginary monstrous creatures. The figures are constantly reinterpreted as the enemies of order change. Gog and Magog have been represented with dog heads, snake tongues. On the covers of contemporary Arab apocalyptic literature they may be giants or half-humans. This volume Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog reveals in eight essays the images of the 'Other' in genres ranging from contemporary folk religion on the internet to the rich literary heritage of Alexander romances.

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Leiden University Press

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9087280904

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Courtly Riddles

Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

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Courtly Riddles

Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry

By: Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

This book is the first study of Persian literary riddles to appear in English. It translates and analyses a wide range of complex riddling poems from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, including the masters of the genre. It also analyses the relationship between metaphors and riddles and the genre of literary description.

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Purdue University Press

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One Word - Yak Kaleme

19th-Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law

By: Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (ed)

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One Word - Yak Kaleme

19th-Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law

By: Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (ed)

One Word - Yak Kaleme was one of the first treatises in the Middle East to demonstrate that Islam is compatible with modern western forms of government, and specifically that sharia principles can be incorporated in a codified law comparable to that found in Europe. This was a daring argument in the late 19th century, when it was extremely difficult to convince the rulers and religious class that a civil code of law was needed: would it not diminish the ruler's status, would it not disqualify the sharia, the religious law?In One Word, the author argues that the principles underlying constituti

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Laylī and Majnūn

Laylī and Majnūn

Of Piety and Heresy

Of Piety and Heresy

Laylī and Majnūn

Laylī and Majnūn

Safina Revealed

Safina Revealed

Of Piety and Heresy

Of Piety and Heresy

Of Piety and Heresy

Of Piety and Heresy

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

Courtly Riddles

Courtly Riddles

One Word - Yak Kaleme

One Word - Yak Kaleme

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