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The Great 'Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát
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ISBN: 9087281579 9400600798 1283698528 9789400600799 9789087281571 9789087281571 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden : Leiden University Press,

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The Rubáiyát by the Persian poet 'Umar Khayyaem (1048-1131) is used in contemporary Iran as a resistance literature, symbolizing the secularist voice in cultural debates. While Islamic fundamentalists criticize Khayyaem as an atheist and materialist philosopher who questions God's creation and the promise of reward or punishment in the hereafter, secularist intellectuals see in him an example of a scientist who scrutinizes the mysteries of the world. Others see a spiritual master, a Sufi, who guides people to the truth. This volume collects eighteen essays on the history of the reception of 'Umar Khayyaem in various literary traditions, exploring how his philosophy of doubt, carpe diem, hedonism, and in vino veritas has inspired generations of poets, novelists, painters, musicians, calligraphers and film-makers.


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The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas : Languages in Kinnaur
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ISBN: 9004513647 9004512241 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv,

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"This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. Sino-Tibetan (Kinnauri and Navakat) and Indo-Aryan (Kinnauri Pahari) languages, which are traditionally spoken in this region, are described as independent linguistic entities and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology, part of which also other linguistic varieties spoken in the wider Himalayan region where Kinnaur is situated are considered. The author endeavors to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur using a combination of traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure inspired by lexicostatistics, taking also morphosyntax into account"--


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Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary
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ISBN: 0520961684 9780520961685 9780520962675 0520962672 9780520962682 0520962680 9780520286467 0520286464 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence"--Provided by publisher.


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A key to the treasure of the Hakīm : artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī's Khamsa
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ISBN: 9087280971 9786613231956 9400600143 1283231956 9789400600140 9781283231954 9789087280970 6613231959 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden : Leiden University Press,

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Includes thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan.

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Language and Languages. --- Linguistics. --- Literature. --- Languages & Literatures --- Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures --- Niẓāmī Ganjavī, --- Persian poetry. --- Iranian literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Gäncävi, Nizami, --- Gandschewi, Ilias Nizami, --- Gandzhavi, Nizami, --- Ganjahʹī, Niẓāmī, --- Ganjavī, Elyās Yūsof Neẓāmī, --- Ganjavi, Nezami, --- Ganjavi, Nezāmi-ye, --- Ganjavī, Niẓāmī, --- Ganjavī, Nizomii, --- Ganjevi, Nizami, --- Ganzhaviĭ, Nizomiĭ, --- Gencewî, Nîzamî, --- Gi︠a︡ndzhavi, Nizami, --- Gi︠a︡ndzhevi, Nizami, --- Neẓāmī, --- Nezami Ganjavi, --- Neẓāmī Ganjavī, Elyās Yūsof, --- Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi, --- Nisami, --- Niẓāmī, --- Nizami aus Gandjeh, --- Nizami Gäncävi, --- Nizami Gandschewi, Ilias, --- Nizami Gandzhavi, --- Niẓāmī Gang̐awī, Ilyās Ibn-Yūsuf, --- Niẓāmī Ganjawī, --- Nizami Ganjevi, --- Nîzamî Gencewî, --- Nizami Gi︠a︡ndzhavi, --- Nizami Gi︠a︡ndzhevi, --- Niẓāmī-i Ganjahʹī, --- Nizami, Ilias, --- Niẓāmī, Ilyās Ibn Yūsuf, --- Nizomii Ganjavī, --- Nizomiĭ Ganzhaviĭ, --- Nizomiĭ, Ilës I︠U︡suf ŭghli, --- نظامى گنجه‌اى --- ‏نظامى گنجوى،‏ --- Bāqī Muḥammad ibn Mawlānā Yūsuf, --- باقى محمد بن مولانا يوسف --- Nizam-e-Ganvi, --- Middle Eastern literature --- Persian literature --- Гянджави, Низами, --- Гянджеви Низами, --- Низами Гянджави, --- Низами Гянджеви, --- ‏نظامى گنجوى, --- باقى محمد بن مولانا يوسف, --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Persian. --- Classical Persian Literature, Persian Poetry, Nizami.

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