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Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezāmī's romance Laylī and Majnūn (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and ...
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians
This book examines and contextualizes Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s (d. 505/1111) fierce response to antinomian and freethinking currents in...
"The Treasury of Tabriz is a massive manuscript from 14th century Persia. It is almost perfectly preserved, and contains 209 works on a wide range of ...
Mirza Yusof Khan Mustashar Ad-Dowla Tabrizi's Treatise on Codified Law (Yak Kalima)
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The Clans of Chaos in World Literature
Gog and Magog originate in the Bible and Quran as savage tribes threatening a settled people. The story has been elaborated in the traditions of diver...
Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry
This book is the first study of Persian literary riddles to appear in English. It translates and analyses a wide range of complex riddling poems from ...
A Compendium of Persian Literature in 14th-century Tabriz
The Safina is a massive, well preserved manuscript from 14th-century Tabriz in Persia, a centre for learning and cultural activities including manuscr...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Other in Literature and Internet Texts
Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and ...
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī's Persian Treatises on Antinomians
This study examines and contextualizes Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī's (d. 1111 C.E.) fierce response to antinomian and freethinking currents in...
19th-Century Persian Treatise Introducing Western Codified Law
One Word - Yak Kaleme was one of the first treatises in the Middle East to demonstrate that Islam is compatible with modern western forms of governmen...