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A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry (paperback)
Author:
Annemarie Schimmel
ISBN:
9789376549849
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2026
Pages:
558
Size:
16 x 24 cm
Price:
INR
2495.00
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About the Book
Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be spontaneous in spirit or highly personal in form. Instead it is rooted in conventions and rules of prosody, rhymes, and verbal instrumentation. Ideally, every verse should be like a precious stone — perfectly formed and multifaceted — and convey the dynamic relationship between everyday reality and the transcendental.Persian poetry, Schimmel explains, is more similar to medieval European verse than Western poetry as it has been written since the Romantic period. The characteristic verse form is the
ghazal
— a set of rhyming couplets — which serves as a vehicle for shrouding in conventional tropes the poet’s real intentions.Because Persian poetry is neither narrative nor dramatic in its overall form, its strength lies in an “architectonic” design; each precisely expressed image is carefully fitted into a pattern of linked figures of speech. Schimmel shows that at its heart Persian poetry transforms the world into a web of symbols embedded in Islamic culture.
About the Author
Annemarie Schimmel
Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003) was a renowned German scholar of Islam and author of eighty books, including
And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
and
Mystical Dimensions of Islam
.
Editorial Reviews
“An original work significantly contributing to a deeper understanding of the metaphorical style and the multiplex allusions of Persian poetry. Students of Persian as well as Turkish, Urdu, and even Arabic literatures will find this reference source as indispensable as any other basic work for the study of their respective fields.”
—Heshmat Moayyad, University of Chicago
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