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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nez?m?'s romance Layl? and Majn?n (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majn?n's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Layl? lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally,…mehr

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Nez?m?'s romance Layl? and Majn?n (1188). It examines key themes such as chastity, constancy and suffering through an analysis of the main characters. Majn?n's asceticism, kingship, love-madness, poetic genius, ill-fate, and love-death are treated in separate chapters. The patriarchal society in which Layl? lives, her anxieties and dilemmas, incarceration, secret love, imposed marriage and finally her death are discussed in detail. One chapter is devoted entirely to the different ways parents raise their children and the consequences. Finally, the book gives an analysis of Nez?m?'s style, the narrative structure of the romance and the symbolism of time and setting.
Autorenporträt
Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Ph.D. (2001) in Persian literature and mysticism, Leiden University, is lecturer of Persian literature at the same university. He has published extensively on classical Persian poetry, mysticism, poetic metaphors and riddles.