Title:
The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century
Subtitle:
A Preliminary Study
Author(s):
Beers, Theodore S.
Year of publication:
2020
Available Date:
2022-01-13T10:05:52Z
Abstract:
In this short article, I draw attention to the discussion of poets from Iran (al-ʿAjam) in two Arabic biographical anthologies of the eleventh/seventeenth century: the Sulāfat al-ʿaṣr of Ibn Maʿṣūm (d. 1120/1709) and the Nafḥat al-rayḥāna of Muḥammad Amīn al-Muḥibbī (d. 1111/1699). The latter text not only addresses the careers of noteworthy Persian poets, but it also presents samples of their work that al-Muḥibbī has translated into Arabic verse. In the case of the poet Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī (d. ca. 1087/1676), at least one of al-Muḥibbī’s translations can be traced to the original Persian. This reveals a specific instance of cross-cultural literary appreciation in the Ottoman-Safavid-Mughal period.
Part of Identifier:
e-ISSN (online): 1068-1051
Keywords:
Iranian history
iranian poetry
Muḥammad Amīn al-Muḥibbī
Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī
Ottoman period
Safavid period
DDC-Classification:
892 Afro-Asiatic literatures Semitic
Publication Type:
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
URL of the Original Publication:
Journaltitle:
<<Al->>ʿUṣūr al-wusṭā
Publisher:
University of Maryland, Middle East Medievalists Secretary
Publisher Place:
College Park, MD
Department/institution:
Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Arabistik
Comments:
This is an AnonymClassic publication. The AnonymClassic project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s H2020-EXCELLENT SCIENCE programme, ERC Advanced Grant Nr. 742635.
