| ISBN |
1921394501 (pbk.) |
| 9781921394508 (pbk.) |
| Title |
Love and devotion from Persia and beyond / edited by Susan Scollay |
| Publisher |
South Yarra, Victoria : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2012 |
| Physical desc. |
xvi, 221, [3] p. ; col. ill., col. map ; 31 cm. |
| Note |
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the State Library of Victoria, from March 2012. |
| Published in association with the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford |
| CBL illustrations: p. 29, fig. 2.6 (Per 104, f. 15). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-221). |
| Contents |
An introduction to Persian poetry and its milieu / Susan Scollay -- Pt. 1: Epic romance. Love and devotion in the Shahnama of Firdausi / Barbara Brend -- Women in the romances of the Shahnama / Firuza Abdullaeva -- Pt. 2: Language of the heart. 'Bahram Gur visits the lady from Khwarazm in the Blue Pavilion on Wednesday' and similar representations from illustrated manuscripts by Nizami, Hatifi and Mir ʿAli Shir in the Bodleian Library / Eleanor Sims -- Earthly and spiritual love in Sufism: Ibn ʿArabi and the poetry of Rumi / Süleyman Derin -- Selection of poetry -- The mystic poetry of ʿAttar and the Conference of the birds / Rafal Stepien -- Meetings of lovers: the Bodleian Majalis al-ʿUshshaq, MS. Ouseley, Add. 24 / Lâle Uluç -- Dreams, premonitions and cosmologies in Persianate literature / Stefano Carboni -- Pt. 3: Intersections: from Persian and beyond. Images of love and devotion: illustrated Mughal manuscripts and albums in the Bodleian Library / Andrew Topsfield -- An Ottoman 'garden of love': the Oxford Dilsuznama, the 'Book of compassion' / Susan Scollay -- Iskandar/Alexander: east and west -- The two faces of love: devotion and terror in medieval and Renaissance Europe / Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers -- Romance and love in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The squire's tale and The parliament of fowls / Nicholas Perkins -- Imagining Persia: European travellers' tales and their literary offspring / Clare Williamson -- Pt. 4: Persian poets and their stories. A glance at the history of romantic versified stories in Persian poetry / Seyed Mohammad Torabi -- Literary works, selected characters and summaries of the major stories -- Biographies of the major Persian poets and writers. |
| Corporate name |
State Library of Victoria -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 104 |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul -- Exhibitions |
| Miniature painting, Iranian -- Exhibitions |
| Manuscripts, Persian -- Exhibitions |
| Persian poetry -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) |
Scollay, Susan ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
State Library of Victoria |
| Bodleian Library |
