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The Necklace of the Pleiades: Twenty-Four Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion

English · Paperback / Softback

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¿The Necklace of the Pleiades¿ is een boek over Perzische literatuur, cultuur en religie door onderzoekers uit de hele wereld. Dit boek weerspiegelt de stand zaken op het gebied van de Perzische literaire studies en is niet alleen van wezenlijk belang voor onderzoekers van de Iranese cultuur, geschiedenis en religies, maar zeker ook voor onderzoekers op het gebied van het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Aziatische studies.

The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdowsi¿s Shahnama and other epics, the poetics and imagery of the ghazal and the qasida, Mughal court poetry, Sufism, Ismaili history, Baha¿i literature, Iranian linguistics, the modern writer Sadeq Hedayat, and the reception of Salman Rushdie¿s novel in Persian translation.

In Persian literature the Necklace of the Pleiades is a metaphor for the six or seven stars (Parvin, or Sorayyâ, high up in the constellation Taurus) which the heavens bestow, like precious pearls, upon a poet in gratitude and reward for composing a beautiful poem. The poem itself is compared to a string of pearls, with its carefully chosen words bored like unique pearls and strung in perfect metrical proportion. As Hafiz puts it:

'You¿ve sung a ghazal, pierced the pearls, come and sing it sweetly, Hafiz!
The heavens strew the very Necklace of the Pleiades upon your verse.'


Product details

Assisted by Franklin Lewis (Editor), Sunil Sharma (Editor)
Publisher Leiden Univ Pr
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2011
 
EAN 9789087280918
ISBN 978-90-8728-091-8
No. of pages 390
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 21 mm
Weight 549 g
Series Amsterdam University Press - I
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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