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Selected poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz


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Éditeur : Cambridge University Press Date & Lieu : 1898, Cambridge
Préface : Pages : 368
Traduction : ISBN :
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 125x195 mm
Code FIKP : Lp. Per. Gen. 65Thème : Poésie

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Selected poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz

Selected poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Reynold A. Nicholson


Introduction

1. The Dīvāni Shamsi Tabriz acquaints us with a striking literary phenomenon1. It is true that books have been ascribed by ambition or malice to those who had no hand in producing them. It is true, again, that while the fashion of pseudonymous authorship is everywhere understood and practised, in Persia the poet a la mode cannot dispense with a takhallus, which instead of exciting curiosity and sparing modesty a blush serves to gratify the generous patron, to immortalise a place or event, to unfold some characteristic, and in fine to secure that its owner shall not for all time lie buried under one of those cumbrous family trees that betray alike the poverty and confusion of Mohammedan nomenclature. But here is no question of takhalluş2, forgery, or composition holding up to ridicule the imagined author. The Divan was never attributed to Shamsi Tabriz, who probably died before it was complete. Why then does his name appear on the title-page and at the end of most of the odes? Who was he, and in what …

1 The case of Plato and Socrates is similar in kind, not in degree.

2 In a certain mystical sense Shamsi Tabriz may be regarded as a takhalluş. Jalālu'ddīn asserts the identity of subject and object: to him Shamsi Tabriz represents the divine Beloved, the one Being in whom all individual names are manifested and ultimately merged.


Table des Matières

Table of contents

Preface / vii-x
Introduction / xv-li

1. Authorship of the Divan / xv
2. Jalalu'ddin Rumi / xvi
3. Shamsi Tabriz / xviii
4. Tlie spiritual director / xx
5. Jalalu 'ddin and Shamsi Tabriz / xxii
6. Sufiism in Persian poetry, development of Sufiism / xxv
7. The doctrines of Jalalu'ddln and Plotinus / xxx
8. Criticism of the Divan / xxxvi
9. Editions and manuscripts of the Divan / xlvii

Addenda and Corrigenda / liii-lv
Selected poems / 2-195
Notes / 197-318
Additional notes / 319-330
Appendices / 331-350

I. Illustrative passages from the Divan with a list of the historical and autobiographical allusions / 331
II. Translations in verse / 342
III. Table showing where the selected poems occur in other editions of the Divan / 347
IV. Comparative table of passages quoted from the Masnavi / 349

Indices / 351-367
I. Persian and Arabic / 351
II. English / 362




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