| Description |
1 online resource (124 pages) |
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Iranian Studies series |
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Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| Contents |
Introduction -- The poetry of Rudaki -- Elegies -- Panegyric poems -- Poems of complaint -- Meditations on life, death and destiny -- Love and its afflictions -- Nature poems -- Wine poems -- Ruba'siyat |
| Summary |
Abu 'Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara. He is widely regarded as 'the father' of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in new Persian language, following the Arab conquest in the seventh and eighth centuries, which established Islam as the official religion, and made Arabic the predominant literary language in Persian-speaking lands for some two centuries. This book presents Rudaki as the founder of a new poetic aesthetic, which was adopted by subsequent generations of Persian poets. Rudaki is credited with being the first to write in the rubâi form; and many of the images we first encounter in Rudaki's lines have become staples of Persian poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122) |
| Notes |
Introduction in English; poems in the original Persian with parallel English translations |
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Print version record |
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Rūdakī, active 10th century -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rūdakī, active 10th century -- Translations into English
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Rūdakī, active 10th century -- Translations into English
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Rūdakī, active 10th century -- Criticism and interpretation
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Rūdakī, active 10th century fast |
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Quatrains, Persian -- History and criticism
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Quatrains, Persian -- Translations into English
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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Literary studies: poetry and poets.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Quatrains, Persian
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Poetry.
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Poetry by individual poets.
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poetry.
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Poetry
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Translations
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789400600164 |
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940060016X |
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9789087282851 |
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9087282850 |
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