Laylī And Majnūn

Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Niẓāmī's Epic Romance
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12942-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nezami’s romance Layli and Majnun (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majnun’s asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Layli lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nezami’s style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seyed-Gohrab, Ali Asghar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Ph.D. (2001) in Persian literature and mysticism, Leiden University, is lecturer of Persian literature at the same university. He has published extensively on classical Persian poetry, mysticism, poetic metaphors and riddles.