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Persian cultural crossroads

Persian cultural crossroads
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ISBN 9780987117724 (pbk.)
ISSN 14413760
Title Persian cultural crossroads / [edited by Susan Scollay and John Arnold]
Publisher Melbourne : State Library of Victoria Foundation, 2013
Physical desc. 208 p. ; ill. (some col.), facsims., maps ; 26 cm.
Note Special issue of: The La Trobe journal, no. 91, June 2013.
Conference proceedings of the international conference, Love and devotion: Persian cultural crossroads, held at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 12-14 April 2012.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The 'Arts of the book' and the diffusion of Persian culture / Charles Melville -- The 'Book of surprises' (Kitab al-bulhan) of the Bodleian Library / Stefano Carboni -- From Qays to Majnun: the evolution of a legend from 'Udhri roots to Sufi allegory / Alasdair Watson -- Women in Rumi's spiritual circle / Zahra Taheri -- Plato's loves and Shakespeare's women / Danijela Kamaskovic-Sawers -- Safavid Persia through the eyes of French travellers / Clare Williamson -- Politics and Persian mythology in Irish poetry / Shelley Meagher -- 'Twofold and yet one': constellating creativity between Goethe and Hafiz / Marcello Stamm -- From Persia and beyond: a discussion of the illustrations to a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi in the State Library of Victoria / Barbara Brend -- Behind the scenes: the Bodleian Library's Mughal paintings of 'love and devotion' / Lesley Forbes -- 'The conceits of poetry': Firdausi's Shahnama and the discovery of Persian in early modern Europe / Mario Casari -- Heart of the fire / Hossein Valamanesh -- Sufis of the Antipodes: the ghazal in contemporary Australian poetry / Ali Alizadeh -- Persian or Islamic?: depictions of love in contemporary Iranian cinema / Anne Démy-Geroe -- 'The language of love': the legacy of Persian poetry and music in contemporary Iran / Gay Breyley -- Acts of devotion in Persian classical texts: self and friendship in Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi's poetry / Mammad Aidani.
Subject Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Themes, motives
Manuscripts, Persian -- Themes, motives
Persian literature -- Themes, motives
Added name(s) Scollay, Susan ed.
Arnold, John 1950-
Added name(s) - Corporate State Library of Victoria Foundation
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