Journal article
Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century: A Preliminary Stude
al-ʻUṣūr al-Wusṭá, v 28(1)
01 Oct 2020
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.
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- Title
- Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century
- Creators
- Theodore S. Beers - Freie Universität Berlin
- Publication Details
- al-ʻUṣūr al-Wusṭá, v 28(1)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Computing and Informatics; Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
- Other Identifier
- 991022052308704721