( slang, derogatory ) Alternative spelling of ho ( “ whore, prostitute ” ).Hoe (implement) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.( transitive, intransitive ) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.Hoe ( third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed) Portuguese: enxada (pt) f, facholo m ( Mozambique ).Maori: pāketu, hetiheti, tipitipi, karaone.Malay: cangkul (ms), pangkur, pacul (ms), cak.German: Hacke (de) f Alemannic German: Grebel m.Galician: aixada (gl) f, legón m, ligoña f, sacho m.They reflect a high degree of engagement with the existing scholarship in the field, they revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work and are indispensable both for specialists in the field and for anyone interested in the movement of ideas in the Medieval world. they show how classical Greek knowledge mingles in a unique manner with the Persian past and the Islamic culture in Nizami’s world. They focus on topics such as mysticism, art history, comparative literature, science, and philosophy. The essays in the present volume constitute a significant development in the field of Nizami-studies, and on a more general level, of classical Persian literature. His heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, Iskandar count amongst the stars of the Persian literary firmament and have become household names all over the Islamic world. His five masnavis (long poems) address a variety of topics and disciplines and have all enjoyed enormous fame, as the countless surviving manuscripts of his work indicate. His work has influenced such other immense poets as Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi. He has left his mark on the whole Persian-speaking world and countless younger poets in the area stretching from the Ottoman to the Mughal worlds (present-day Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India) have found him an inspiration and have tried to emulate him. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering figure who produced outstanding poetry, straddling mysticism, romances and epics. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan. This “Key” to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Azada and Bahram between Esther and Sindbadħ What is it that Khusraw learns from the Kalila-Dimna stories?Ĩ The “Wasteland” and Alexander, the Righteous King, in Nizami’s Iqbal Namaĩ A Mystical Reading of Nizami’s Use of Nature in the Haft Paykarġ0 The Nizami Manuscript of Shah Tahmasp: A Reconstructed Historyġ1 Nizami Ganjavi, the Wordsmith: The Concept of sakhun in Classical Persian Poetryġ3 “Let Even a Cat Win your Heart!” Nizami on Animal and Man.Īlready published in the Iranian Studies Series: Reviews and Features Introduction “A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim”Ģ The Hidden Pearls of Wisdom: Desire and Initiation in Layli u Majnunģ Descriptions and Images – Remarks on Gogand Magog in Nizami’s Iskandar Nama,Firdawsi’s Shah Nama and Amir Khusraw’s A’ina-yi IskandariĤ Nizami’s Cosmographic Vision and Alexander in Search of the Fountain of Lifeĥ Drinking from the Water of Life – Nizami, Khizr and the Symbolism of Poetical Inspiration in Later Persianate LiteratureĦ The Enigma of Turandot in Nizami’s Pentad. Academica University of Applied Sciences.
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