Jami / Hamid Algar
- Author
- Algar, Hamid, 1940-
- Published
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: geographical and historical setting -- 2.From infancy to eminence, from Kharjird to Khiaban -- 3.The Herat triumvirate: Jami, Bayqara, Nava'i -- 4.The Seal of the Poets': Jami and the traditions of Persian Poetry -- 5.Naqshbandi-Akbari: Jami and Sufi tradition -- 6.`Solitude within society': Jami as social critic -- 7.Jami and posterity: his legacy in Dar al-Islam -- 8.Further reading and Works cited.
- Summary
- Primarily celebrated as a poet, 'Abd al-Rahman Jami was also an accomplished Islamic scholar and Arabist, a Sufi of great standing, and an acerbic polemicist and social critic. In this volume, Hamid Algar presents a masterfully concise study of Jami, a culminating figure in Perso-Islamic culture, whose reputation and influence have remained undiminished throughout the eastern Islamic world-the Ottoman empire and Central Asia, Iran, India, China, and the Malay world.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780199082544 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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