Love and Devotion
From Persia and Beyond
Distributed for Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
221 pages
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135 color plates
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9 1/4 x 12
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© 2012
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. An Introduction to Persian Poetry and Its Milieu
Susan Scollay
Part I: Epic Romance
2. Love and Devotion in the Shahnama of Firdausi
Barbara Brend
3. Women in the Romances of the Shahnama
Firuza Abdullaeva
Part II: Language of the Heart
4. ‘Bahram Gur Visits the Lady from Khwarazm in the Blue Pavilion on Wednesday’ and Similar Representations from Illustrated Manuscripts by Nizami, Hatifi and Mir ‘Ali Shir in the Bodleian Library
Eleanor Sims
5. Earthly and Spiritual Love in Sufism: Ibn “Arabi and the Poetry of Rumi
Süleyman Derin
Selection of Poetry
6. The Mystic Poetry of ‘Attar and the Conference of the Birds
Rafal Stepien
7. Meetings of Lovers: The Bodleian Majalis al-‘Ushshaq, MS. Ouseley, Add. 24
Lâle Uluç
8. Dreams, Premonitions and Cosmologies in Persianate Literature
Stefano Carboni
Part III: Intersections: From Persia and Beyond
9. Images of Love and Devotion: Illustrated Mughal Manuscripts and Albums in the Bodleian Library
Andrew Topsfield
10. An Ottoman ‘Garden of Love’: The Oxford Dilsuznama, the ‘Book of Compassion’
Susan Scollay
Iskandar/Alexander: East and West
11. The Two Faces of Love: Devotion and Terror in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
12. Romance and Love in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Squire’s Tale and The Parliament of Fowls
Nicholas Perkins
13. Imagining Persia: European Travellers’ Tales and Their Literary Offspring
Clare Williamson
Part IV: Persian Poets and Their Stories
14. A Glance at the History of Romantic Versified Stories in Persian Poetry
Seyed Mohammad Torabi
Literary Works, Selected Characters and Summaries of the Major Stories
Biographies of the Major Persian Poets and Writers
Timeline
Map
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. An Introduction to Persian Poetry and Its Milieu
Susan Scollay
Part I: Epic Romance
2. Love and Devotion in the Shahnama of Firdausi
Barbara Brend
3. Women in the Romances of the Shahnama
Firuza Abdullaeva
Part II: Language of the Heart
4. ‘Bahram Gur Visits the Lady from Khwarazm in the Blue Pavilion on Wednesday’ and Similar Representations from Illustrated Manuscripts by Nizami, Hatifi and Mir ‘Ali Shir in the Bodleian Library
Eleanor Sims
5. Earthly and Spiritual Love in Sufism: Ibn “Arabi and the Poetry of Rumi
Süleyman Derin
Selection of Poetry
6. The Mystic Poetry of ‘Attar and the Conference of the Birds
Rafal Stepien
7. Meetings of Lovers: The Bodleian Majalis al-‘Ushshaq, MS. Ouseley, Add. 24
Lâle Uluç
8. Dreams, Premonitions and Cosmologies in Persianate Literature
Stefano Carboni
Part III: Intersections: From Persia and Beyond
9. Images of Love and Devotion: Illustrated Mughal Manuscripts and Albums in the Bodleian Library
Andrew Topsfield
10. An Ottoman ‘Garden of Love’: The Oxford Dilsuznama, the ‘Book of Compassion’
Susan Scollay
Iskandar/Alexander: East and West
11. The Two Faces of Love: Devotion and Terror in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
12. Romance and Love in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, The Squire’s Tale and The Parliament of Fowls
Nicholas Perkins
13. Imagining Persia: European Travellers’ Tales and Their Literary Offspring
Clare Williamson
Part IV: Persian Poets and Their Stories
14. A Glance at the History of Romantic Versified Stories in Persian Poetry
Seyed Mohammad Torabi
Literary Works, Selected Characters and Summaries of the Major Stories
Biographies of the Major Persian Poets and Writers
Timeline
Map
Glossary
List of Illustrations
Select Bibliography
Review Quotes
Choice
"This handsome volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name. Fourteen chapters present aspects of classic Persianate literature and book illustrations ostensibly focused on the themes of love and devotion, but actually including such topics as mysticism and astrology, and a discussion of related themes, such as the influences on Chaucer and European travelers. . . . The pictures are beautifully reproduced with lots of details. . . . Recommended."
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