Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. “A Noose of Light” A Brief Biography of J.T.P. de Bruijn 1
5. Publications of J.T.P. de Bruijn 9
6. Persian Art and Material Culture
7. A Religious Subject on a Persian Qalamkār 21
8. Persian Literature
9. Poets and Minstrels in Early Persian Literature 33
10. The Transmission of Early Persian Ghazals (with Special Reference to the Dīvān of Sanā’ī) 41
11. The Individuality of the Persian Khafīf Metre 55
12. The Stories of Sanā’ī’s Fakhrī-nāma 67
13. The Name of the Poet in Classical Persian Poetry 85
14. Chains of Gold: Jāmī’s Defence of Poetry 97
15. Anvarī and the Ghazal: An Exploration 111
16. Some Strip of Herbage: Gardens in Persian Poetry 137
17. Spring versus Autumn: A Dispute in the Meadows of Thoughts 149
18. Islamic Mysticism (Şūfīsm)
19. The Religious Use of Persian Poetry 161
20. Sanā’ī and the Rise of Persian Mystical Poetry 173
21. The Qalandariyyāt in Persian Mystical Poetry, from Sanā’ī onwards 181
22. The Preaching Poet Three Homiletic Poems by Farīd al-DīnʿAṭṭār 193
23. Of Poetry and Power: Sanā’ī and Sultan of Ghazna 207
24. Oriental Studies
25. Iranian Studies in the Netherlands 223
26. The Persian Studies of Adriaan Reland (1676–1718) 237
27. Between Hammer and Browne: Hermann Ethé as a Historian of Persian Literature 249
28. J.T.P. de Bruijn’s Poetry in Dutch, English, and Persian
29. Occasional Poetry 265
30. PERZISCHE SEXTETTEN Persian Sextets 273
31. KWATRIJNEN VAN NU Quatrains for Today 277
32. Holland Haikus 285
33. Notes 313
34. Bibliography 351