Overview
- Explores Nezami’s literary techniques and conceptualization of poetry, rhetoric, and eloquence
- Redresses an imbalance in scholarship on Nezami that has focused on his poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam
- Compares Nezami to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, and Rudaki
Part of the book series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World (LCIW)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretation of Nezami’s poetry as the product of mysticism or Islam, this book explores Nezami’s literary techniques such as his pictorial allegory and his profound conceptualization of poetry, rhetoric, and eloquence. It employs several theoretical and methodological approaches to clarify the nature of his artistic approach to poetry. Chapters explore Nezami’s understanding of rhetoric and literature as Sakhon, his interest in literary genres, the diversity of themes explored in his Five Treasures, the sources of Nezami’s creativity, and his literary devices. Exploring themes such as love, religion, science, wine, gender, and philosophy, this study compares Nezami’s works to other giants of Persian poetry such as Ferdowsi, Jami, Rudaki, and others. The book argues that Nezami’s main concern was to weave poetry rather than to promote any specific ideology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature
Book Subtitle: Demystifying the Mystic
Authors: Kamran Talattof
Series Title: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97990-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97989-8Published: 29 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97992-8Published: 02 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97990-4Published: 28 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2945-705X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Middle Eastern Literature, Medieval Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Islam