A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm: Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizāmī Ganjavī’s Khamsa

A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim
Contents
Acknowledgment
Introduction “A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm”
1 Nizāmī’s World Order
2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn
3 Descriptions and Images – Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizāmī’s Iskandar Nāma,Firdawsī’s Shāh Nāma and Amīr Khusraw’s A’īna-yi Iskandarī
4 Nizāmī’s Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life
5 Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature
6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī’s Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād
7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories?
8 The “Wasteland” and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī’s Iqbāl Nāma
9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī’s Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar
10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History
11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry
12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar
13 “Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!” Nizāmī on Animal and Man.
Illustrations to Chapter 10
Bibliography
Index
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