The Rose and the Wine
Dispute as a Literary Device in Classical Persian Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (0000-0001-5072-5702, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-85 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2013.825506 |
| OpenAlex | W2016747456 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
As everyone knows, alcoholic drinks, including wine, are forbidden by Islam. Readers of Persian poetry often wonder how is it possible that Persian wine literature is one of the richest in the world and whether the poets and authors ever address the illicitness of the wine in their works. This article examines how one author, Zangī Bukhārī, presents a catalogue of positive and negative qualities of wine in his Gul u mul (“The Rose and the Wine”). Through the genre of debate ( munāzara ), he shows how a courtly audience may have tried to justify the drinking of wine. The article examines the formal generic characteristics of such debates, showing how the form of the debate is rather appropriate to let forbidden objects or ideas, in this case the wine, speak for themselves thus defending their position in an Islamic society. entertaining in is richness in metaphors and imagery used by the wine and the rose to voice their superiority to each other, but it also addresses a rather controversial topic in an uncontroversial style
Art · Epistemology · Islam · Literature · Persian · Persian literature · Poetry · Rose (mathematics · Style (visual arts · Theology · Visual arts · Wine · Wonder · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Islamic Studies and History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |