Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgment 7
4. Introduction. “A Key to the Treasure of the Hakīm” 9
5. 1 Nizāmī’s World Order 17
6. 2 The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Laylī u Majnūn 53
7. 3 Descriptions and Images – Remarks on Gog and Magog in Nizāmī’s Iskandar Nāma, Firdawsī’s Shāh Nāma and Amīr Khusraw’s A’īna-yi Iskandarī 77
8. 4 Nizāmī’s Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Life 95
9. 5 Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizāmī, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate Literature 107
10. 6 The Enigma of Turandot in Nizāmī’s Pentad. Azāda and Bahrām between Esther and Sindbād 127
11. 7 What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalīla-Dimna stories? 145
12. 8 The “Wasteland” and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizāmī’s Iqbāl Nāma 167
13. 9 A Mystical Reading of Nizāmī’s Use of Nature in the Haft Paykar 181
14. 10 The Nizāmī Manuscript of Shāh Tahmāsp: A Reconstructed History 195
15. 11 Nizāmī Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetry 211
16. 12 Teucros in Nizāmī's Haft Paykar 245
17. 13 “Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!” Nizāmī on Animal and Man 253
18. Illustrations 267
19. Bibliography 275
20. Index 291