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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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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111448053

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9783111448053

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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