The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric

Abstract

Consists of the majority of the papers presented at a commemoration symposium for K. Allen Luther at Princeton University on February 21-22, 1998. A comparison of Nizami's Layli and Majnun and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / Jerome W. Clinton -- Layla grows up : Nizami's Layla and Majnun "in the Turkish manner" / Mehmed Kalpaklī and Walter G. Andrews -- Nizami's unlikely heroines : a study of the characterizations of women in classical Persian literature / Kamran Talattof -- Majnun's image as a serpent / Asghar Abu Gohrab -- The historian and the poet : Rāvandī, Nizami, and the rhetoric of history / Julie Scott Meisami -- Occult sciences in the Iskandarnameh of Nizami / J. Christoph Bürgel -- Nizami's poetry versus scientific knowledge : the case of the pomegranate / Christine van Ruymbeke -- Music in Khusraw va Shirin / Firoozeh Khazrai -- The story of the Ascension (Miʼraj) in Nizami's work / C.H. De Fouchécour, translated by Kamran Talattof and Arjang Talattof -- International recognition of Nizami's work : a bibliography / Kamran Talattof.