Download or read book Leyla and Mejnun written by Fuzuli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, Leyla and Mejnun provides a thorough introduction to the Leyla and Mejnun love story and the various forms in which the story has appeared in the Islamic world. Finally, it offers for the delight of the English poetry lover, an extremely readable translation of the Turkish version of the story. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.
Download or read book Layla and Majnun written by Ganjavi Nizami and published by Blake Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is a prose rendition of Nizami's 12th-century poetic masterpiece, in which he reshapes the legends of Majnun, the quintessential romantic fool, into a tale of the ideal lover. For the Sufis, Majnun represents the perfect devotee of the "religion of the heart," and the story is an allegory of the soul's longing for God. This is a beautiful production, and it includes a final chapter newly translated from the Persian by Omid Safi and Zia Inayat Khan.
Download or read book The Story Of Layla And Majnun written by Nizami Ganjav and published by Mizan Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laila adalah sang Kekasih, Majnun sang Pencinta, dan kisah Majnun adalah kisah sang Pencari yang terbakar kerinduan dan cinta. Tak ada yang lebih menyakitkan daripada kesedihan sejati karena perpisahan. Kisah Qais dan Laila tumbuh dari cinta yang murni dan polos, sebelum didera kemalangan. Tanpa restu orangtua, cinta mereka tak menemukan jalan terang. Perpisahan terpaksa ini membuat Qais tak berdaya hingga hilang akal, mengoyaknya dari ikatan dunia, dari identitasnya yang fana—mengubah Qais menjadi Majnun yang gila karena cinta. Penderitaan cinta Majnun ini, menjadi romansa legendaris yang disenandungkan selama berabad-abad, dari generasi ke generasi. Bahkan kaum sufi menganggap Laila & Majnun sebagai kisah cinta spiritual dan alegori pencarian jiwa akan Tuhan. Dari para kekasih yang putus asa, kita mendapatkan gambaran bagaimana cinta manusia dapat diubah menjadi cinta ilahiah melalui perpisahan dan kerinduan. Mahakarya yang ditulis Nizami Ganjavi pada akhir abad ke-12 ini abadi. Kisah Laila & Majnun menginspirasi berbagai karya besar dunia—termasuk Romeo & Juliet dari Shakespeare— serta telah diadaptasi ke berbagai media seperti film, musik, tarian, dan sebagainya. Pengantar Laila & Majnun adalah sebuah kisah cinta termasyhur dari Timur Tengah yang melambangkan cinta mistis kaum sufi. Kaum sufi adalah para pencinta Tuhan, yang berkelana di sahara dunia. Mereka melakukan perjalanan panjang dari pengalaman keterpisahan menuju persatuan dengan Tuhan. Bagi mereka, hubungan dengan Tuhan laksana hubungan pencinta dengan sang Kekasih. Kerinduan akan pertemuan dengan Kekasih membuat para sufi menjauhi dunia dan menenggelamkan diri pada misteri jiwa. Para pencinta Tuhan ini menganggap kisah Laila-Majnun sebagai kisah mereka sendiri; sebuah kisah cinta ruhani yang sarat simbol dan perlambang nan luar biasa. Sebuah kisah cinta yang gila dan mengguncangkan, yang dialami oleh Qais, yang cintanya pada Laila membuatnya menjadi sang Gila, Majnun. Laila adalah sang Kekasih, Majnun sang Pencinta, dan kisah Majnun adalah kisah sang Pencari yang terbakar kerinduan dan cinta. Dalam karya Nizami yang ditulis pada akhir abad ke-12 ini, hubungan Laila dan Majnun kaya akan simbolisme sufi. Misalnya ketika Majnun, yang terdorong oleh derita perpisahan, merangkak-rangkak mendekati kemah Laila. Seluruh pancaran fajar adalah Laila, namun sebatang lilin tegak menyala di depannya, lantaran terbakar oleh hasrat. Laila bagai taman terindah, sedangkan Majnun laksana obor kerinduan. Laila menanam serumpun mawar; Majnun menyiraminya dengan air matanya. Dari balik rambut hitamnya yang tergerai, satu lirikan Laila menyihir Majnun. Pemuda itu menjadi budaknya, bagai seorang darwis yang menari-nari di hadapannya. Dengan tangannya, Laila memegang secawan anggur, namun Majnun telah dibuat mabuk oleh aroma harumnya bahkan sebelum menyentuhnya. [Mizan, Sastra Klasik, Cinta, Filsafat, Sufi, Terjemahan, Islam, Indonesia]
Download or read book Leyl and Mejn n written by Fuzulî and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Layli and Majnun written by Nezami Ganjavi and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.
Download or read book The Story of Layla and Majnun written by Niẓāmī Ganjavī and published by Suluk Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent translation of Nizami's 12th century poetic masterpiece of the legend of the romantic fool. Tale of the ideal lover, and allegory of the soul's search for God.
Download or read book Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing explores recent writing by a variety of South African authors of Indian descent. The essays highlight the sociality and patterns of connectedness that are being forged between South Africa’s hitherto divided communities.
Download or read book Ottoman Lyric Poetry written by Walter G. Andrews and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Empire was one of the most significant forces in world history and yet little attention is paid to its rich cultural life. For the people of the Ottoman Empire, lyrical poetry was the most prized literary activity. People from all walks of life aspired to be poets. Ottoman poetry was highly complex and sophisticated and was used to express all manner of things, from feelings of love to a plea for employment. This collection offers free verse translations of 75 lyric poems from the mid-fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries, along with the Ottoman Turkish texts and, new to this expanded edition, photographs of printed, lithographed, and hand-written Ottoman script versions of several of the texts--a bonus for those studying Ottoman Turkish. Biographies of the poets and background information on Ottoman history and literature complete the volume.
Download or read book Ottoman Notables and Participatory Politics written by John Bragg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on events in the Anatolian town of Tokat during the final two decades of the great Ottoman legal and administrative reforms known as the Tanzimat (1839-76), this book applies elements of social networking theory to analyze and assess the establishment of local governments across the Middle East. The author’s key finding is that the state’s efforts to centralize authority succeeded only when and where locals acted as the primary agents of change. Independent notables, such as the military a‘yân, demanded wealth and state offices in exchange for meting out reform measures according to local idioms of power. Newly created administrative bodies also offered greater social mobility to a growing multiconfessional middle-class in small towns like Tokat. The state was desparate to reform, but opportunistic provincials were eager to have it only on their own terms. Challenging false assumptions about the limited scope of participatory politics in the Middle East during the nineteenth century, Ottoman Notables and Participatory Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Economy, History and Middle East Studies.
Download or read book Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan written by Wali Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the unleashing of the "War on Terror" in the aftermath of 9/11, Afghanistan has become prominent in the news. However, we need to appreciate that no substantive understanding of contemporary history, politics and society of this country can be achieved without a thorough analysis of the Afghan encounter with cultural and literary modernity and modernization. Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan does just that. The book offers a balanced and interdisciplinary analysis of the rich and admirable contemporary poetry and fiction of a land long tormented by wars and invasions. It sets out to demonstrate that, within the trajectory of the union between modern aesthetic imagination and politics, creativity and production, and representation and history, the modernist intervention enabled many contemporary poets and writers of fiction to resist the overt politicization of the literary field, without evading politics or disavowing the modern state. The interpretative moves and nuanced readings of a series of literary texts make this book a major contribution to a rather neglected area of research and study. Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009
Download or read book How to Read Islamic Carpets written by Walter B. Denny and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engaging and accessible volume offers invaluable insights and novel perspectives on what is perhaps the most iconic of all Islamic art forms: the handwoven carpet. With a history stretching back to the fourteenth century and a geographic reach spanning Europe to Eurasia, Mongolia to the Middle East, Islamic carpets boast a degree of innovation and technical skill to rival the world's most exalted works of art. Beauty and brilliance emerge in equal measure from carpets of all forms be they colossal silk rugs exchanged as gifts by sultans and kings or small and sturdy textiles woven for use in nomadic encampments. Some sixty superlatives examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection—from Persia, India, Turkey, North Africa, and across the Islamic world—are presented here in lavish detail, with concise and approachable texts that position each work in historical and cultural context. Beginning with a discussion of materials and techniques, How to Read Islamic Carpets offers a comprehensive introduction to this captivating art form, and reveals the lasting influence of carpet-weaving traditions in lands far beyond the Islamic world.
Download or read book Brooke s Romeus and Juliet written by Arthur Brooke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ottoman Literature written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of notable poetry and poets in the history of Turkey. Some discussion of the general character, the verse-form, the meters, and the development of Ottoman poetry is included in the beginning of the collection.
Download or read book The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories written by Ayse Papatya Bucak and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut story collection of spectacular imaginative range and lyricism from a Pushcart Prize–winning author. In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount the effects of an earthquake and a chess-playing automaton falls in love. A student stops eating and no one knows whether her act is personal or political. A Turkish wrestler, a hero in the East, is seen as a brute in the West. The anguish of an Armenian refugee is “performed” at an American fund-raiser. An Ottoman ambassador in Paris amasses a tantalizing collection of erotic art. And in the masterful title story, the Greek god Apollo confronts his personal history and bewails his Homeric reputation as he tries to memorialize, and make sense of, generations of war. A joy and a provocation, Bucak’s stories confront the nature of historical memory with humor and humanity. Surreal and poignant, they examine the tension between myth and history, cultural categories and personal identity, performance and authenticity.
Download or read book The Fire of Love written by Ganjavi Nizami and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla and Majnun reflects the spiritual struggle within the soul of every human being to reunite with the inner flame of love, merging then into the timeless splendor of Divine Love, into the infinite majesty of God.
Download or read book A Companion to World Literature written by Ken Seigneurie and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 3808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives. Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature can challenge parochial world views by identifying cultural commonalities. Each unique volume includes introductory chapters on a variety of theoretical viewpoints that inform the field, followed by essays considering the ways in which authors and their books contribute to and engage with the many visions and variations of world literature as a genre. Explores how texts, tropes, narratives, and genres reflect nations, languages, cultures, and periods Links world literary theory and texts in a clear, synoptic style Identifies how individual texts are influenced and affected by issues such as intertextuality, translation, and sociohistorical conditions Presents a variety of methodologies to demonstrate how modern scholars approach the study of world literature A significant addition to the field, A Companion to World Literature provides advanced students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in world literature and literary theory.
Download or read book Layla Majnun written by Ismail Choonara and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
