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Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 3. Amīr Khusraw's Introduction to His Third Dīvān, The Full Moon of Perfection
- Author(s):
- Nasrin Askari (see profile)
- Contributor(s):
- Kristof D’hulster, Hadel Jarada, Bakir Mohammad, Michelle Quay, Kayvan Tahmasebian
- Editor(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould
- Date:
- 2021
- Group(s):
- Global Literary Theory, Islamicate Studies, Literary theory, Persian and Persianate Studies, Poetics and Poetry
- Subject(s):
- Middle Eastern literature, Persian literature, Poetics, Poetry, Rhetoric, Translating and interpreting, Literature
- Item Type:
- Online publication
- Tag(s):
- GlobalLit, multilingual, Literary theory, Poetics and poetry, Translation, World literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ced6-d049
- Abstract:
- Nicknamed as the “Parrot of India” for his exceptional eloquence, Amīr Khusraw of Delhi (1253–1325) wrote elaborate prose introductions to all his dīvāns, but the one he wrote to his Ghurrat al-kamāl (The Full Moon of Perfection)—compiled around 1293–94, at the approximate age of 43—is particularly important because of his critique of Arabic and Persian poetry in general, and the critique of his own writing in particular. As a literary critique by an author of Turko-Indian background, who emulated the styles of various great Persian poets from Ghazni (in modern-day Afghanistan) to Shiraz and Isfahan (in modern-day Iran), to Ganja (in modern-day Azerbaijan), Amīr Khusraw’s work would provide valuable insights into the literary sphere of the medieval Persianate world. The present paper summarizes the author’s first part of the introduction to his third dīvān, Ghurrat al-kamāl (The Full Moon of Perfection), followed by an English translation of the section where he critiques his own poetry and prose.
- Notes:
- This series is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 759346.) For more working papers of the series, visit https://globallit.hcommons.org/licit-magic-working-papers/. For a presentation of the series, visit https://medium.com/global-literary-theory.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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