Julie Scott Meisami
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 703163 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julie Scott Meisami |
| PRENOMES | Julie Scott |
| SOBRENOME | Meisami |
| ASSINATURA | MEISAMI J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Medieval Persian Court Poetry
A Life in Poetry
Discussing Hāfiz, in his chapter on “Lyric Poetry” (in Persian Literature, 1988), Heshmat Moayyad defined ambiguity as “one of the main characteristics of the Hafezian style,” and one which differentiates Hāfiz's style from that of his predecessor Sa‘dī. Moayyad went on to say that it is this which lends to Hāfiz's style “a degree of sophistication...that is unparalleled in Persian poetry,” and which makes him “somewhat aloof and unreachable, wit…
Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry
This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and development in the use of a wide variety of compositional strategies. Discussing such topics as pri…
The Poet and His Patrons
Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah ʿAbbas
History as Literature
Confronted with the task of writing a chapter on “History as Literature” for the volume on Persian historiography in the new History of Persian Literature, I found myself asking, “What does this title mean? And what might it imply?“ In medieval Islamicate societies, “history” (Arabic ta˒rīkh, Persian tārīkh) referred both to a specific discipline and to works dealing with the objects of that discipline. If, as written works, histories may be broa…
Persian Historiography
Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected." "Why write history in Persian?" Persian historical writing has received little attention as compared with Arabic, especially as seen in the early (pre-Mongol) period. Within the larger context of the development of Islamic historiography from the 10th t…
Medieval Ismaʿili History and Thought
Poetic Microcosms
Shards of Love
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often…
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Symbolic Structure in a Poem by Nāṣir-i Khusrau
Article portant sur la composition et la mise en evidence des structures dans l'art poetique du poete ismailien Nasir-i Khusrau
The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Favāʾiḍ)
The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna
The Past in Service of the Present
J. S. Meisami, The Past in Service of the Present: Two Views of History in Medieval Persia, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 247-275
Arabic Poetics Revisited
Arabic Culture and Medieval European Literature
Ghaznavid Panegyrics
The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám, from the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abol-qasem Ferdowsi
Medieval Persian Court Poetry
Masʽūdī on love and the fall of the Barmakids
Midway through his account of the fortunes of the Barmakids in his Murūj aldhahab wa-ma'ādin al-jawhar , al-Masʽūdī (d. 956) introduces a debate on love said to have taken place in the majlis of Yaḥyā ibn Khālid al-Barmakī. Yaḥyā, described as a man of great learning devoted to philosophical discussion, invited the theologians who frequented his salon, and who had previously debated on a variety of philosophical and theological topics, “to speak …
Le livre de Samak-e ̔Ayyâr
Le livre de Samak-e ̔Ayyâr: structure et idéologie du roman persan médiéval. By Marina Gaillard. (Travaux de l'Institut d'Études Iraniennes de l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 12.) pp. 181. Paris, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et l'Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 1987. - Volume 121 Issue 1
Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric Poetry
This is the first comprehensive and comparative study of compositional and stylistic techniques in medieval Arabic and Persian lyric poetry. Ranging over some seven countries, it deals with works by over thirty poets in the Islamic world from Spain to present-day Afghanistan, and examines how this rich poetic traditions exhibits both continuity and development in the use of a wide variety of compositional strategies. Discussing such topics as pri…
Persian historiography to the end of the twelfth century
Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected. Why write history in Persian? Persian historical writing has received little attention as compared with Arabic, especially as seen in the early (pre-Mongol) period. Within the larger context of the development of Islamic historiography from the tenth thr…
Persian Historiography
Winner of the 1999 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Described by the BKFS reviewer as A ground-breaking work on a subject that has been almost totally neglected." "Why write history in Persian?" Persian historical writing has received little attention as compared with Arabic, especially as seen in the early (pre-Mongol) period. Within the larger context of the development of Islamic historiography from the 10th t…
Ghaznavid Panegyrics
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Allegorical Gardens in the Persian Poetic Tradition
A striking feature of medieval Persian poetry is the abundance of nature imagery that permeates every poetic genre, and especially imagery relating to gardens. The royal gardens and parks evoked in the descriptive exordia of the qasīda , the luxuriant gardens of romance that provide settings for tales of love, the spiritual gardens of mystical writings, the flowery haunts of rose and nightingale in the courtly ghazal —all provide eloquent testimo…
History as Literature
Confronted with the task of writing a chapter on “History as Literature” for the volume on Persian historiography in the new History of Persian Literature, I found myself asking, “What does this title mean? And what might it imply?“ In medieval Islamicate societies, “history” (Arabic ta˒rīkh, Persian tārīkh) referred both to a specific discipline and to works dealing with the objects of that discipline. If, as written works, histories may be broa…
The Past in Service of the Present
J. S. Meisami, The Past in Service of the Present: Two Views of History in Medieval Persia, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 247-275
Sir William Jones and The Reception of Persian Literature
Of Piety and Poetry
Of Piety and Poetry: The Interaction of Religion and Literature in the Life and Works of Ḥakīm Sanā’ī of Ghazna, by J. T. P. De Bruijn. (Publication of the de Goeje Fund 27.) xvii + 300 pages, notes, bibliography, index. E. J. Brill, Leiden1983. - Volume 19 Issue 1
The Uses of the Qasida
Allegorical Gardens in the Persian Poetic Tradition
A striking feature of medieval Persian poetry is the abundance of nature imagery that permeates every poetic genre, and especially imagery relating to gardens. The royal gardens and parks evoked in the descriptive exordia of the qasīda , the luxuriant gardens of romance that provide settings for tales of love, the spiritual gardens of mystical writings, the flowery haunts of rose and nightingale in the courtly ghazal —all provide eloquent testimo…
Unsquaring the Circle
UNSQUARING THE CIRCLE: REREADING A POEM BY AL-MU TAMID IBN ABBAD * BY JULIE SCOTT MEISAMI AYMOND SCHEINDLIN'S 1974 analysis of compositional techni- Rques in the poems of al-Muctamid ibn 'Abbdd (1039-1095)' 1 remains a landmark in the study of Arabic poetic structure. Challenging the traditional view «that the Arabic poem is not an organic whole, but an aggregation of various unrelated or only tenuously related parts» (p. 2), Scheindlin demonstra…
Literary Reviews
Classic realism. The Time of the Hero. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp. London: Picador. 1986. 409pp. £4.50pb The Green House. Mario Vargas Llosa. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. London: Picador. 1986. 405pp. £3.95pb Colluding with darkness. Of Love and Shadows. Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. London: Cape. 1987. 274pp. £10.95hb The Lizard's Tail. Luisa Valenzu…
Sawāniḥ
Sawāniḥ: Inspirations from the World of Pure Spirits, the Oldest Persian Sufi Treatise on Love, by Aḥmad Ghazzālī, translated from the Persian with commentary and notes by Nasrollah Pourjavady. 127 pages. Kegan Paul International, London1986. £18.00. - Volume 22 Issue 1
Poetry's Voice, Society's Song, Ottoman Lyric Poetry
Masʽūdī on love and the fall of the Barmakids
Midway through his account of the fortunes of the Barmakids in his Murūj aldhahab wa-ma'ādin al-jawhar , al-Masʽūdī (d. 956) introduces a debate on love said to have taken place in the majlis of Yaḥyā ibn Khālid al-Barmakī. Yaḥyā, described as a man of great learning devoted to philosophical discussion, invited the theologians who frequented his salon, and who had previously debated on a variety of philosophical and theological topics, “to speak …
Le livre de Samak-e ̔Ayyâr
Le livre de Samak-e ̔Ayyâr: structure et idéologie du roman persan médiéval. By Marina Gaillard. (Travaux de l'Institut d'Études Iraniennes de l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 12.) pp. 181. Paris, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique et l'Association pour l'Avancement des Études Iraniennes, 1987. - Volume 121 Issue 1
Persian Literature
Ghaznavid Panegyrics
The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám, from the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abol-qasem Ferdowsi
Medieval Persian Court Poetry
Arabic Culture and Medieval European Literature
Arabic Poetics Revisited
Symbolic Structure in a Poem by Nāṣir-i Khusrau
Article portant sur la composition et la mise en evidence des structures dans l'art poetique du poete ismailien Nasir-i Khusrau
The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Favāʾiḍ)
The Poetics of Alfarabi and Avicenna
The Past in Service of the Present
J. S. Meisami, The Past in Service of the Present: Two Views of History in Medieval Persia, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 247-275
The Romance Tradition in Urdu
Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N
Poetic Microcosms
Shards of Love
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often…
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Medieval Ismaʿili History and Thought
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