The Prince and the Sufi - The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies

The Prince and the Sufi is the literary composition of the seventeenth-century Judeo-Persian poet Elisha ben Shmūel. In The Prince and the Sufi: The Judeo-Persian Rendition of the Buddha Biographies, Dalia Yasharpour provides a thorough analysis of this popular work together with the annotated text and English translation.

About the author

Dalia Yasharpour, Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Los Angeles, is an independent scholar lecturing at universities in Southern California, including UCLA and the American Jewish University. She has edited a number of Persian language textbooks, authored multiple articles related to Judeo-Persian Studies and published The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill, 2011) with Fook-Kong Wong.

Product details

• Authors: Dalia Yasharpour
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004442740
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44274-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism