The La Trobe Journal No 91 June 2013
Persian cultural crossroads
This special edition of the La Trobe Journal consists of 16 papers given at the 'Love and devotion: Persian cultural crossroads' conference held in April 2012 to accompany the Library's landmark exhibition Love and devotion: from Persia and beyond.
The papers focus on the exhibition's themes of the beauty of Persian manuscripts and literature, and their influence beyond the territorial borders of Iran.
Contents
[Front matter] (pdf,296.64 KB)- Editorial (pdf,226.66 KB)
- Charles Melville –The ‘Art of the Book’ and the Diffusion of Persian Culture (pdf,507.21 KB)
- Stefano Carboni –The ‘Book of Surprises’ (Kitab al-bulhan) of the Bodleian Library (pdf,384.75 KB)
- Alasdair Watson – From Qays to Majnun: the evolution of a legend from ‘Udhiri roots to Sufi allegory (pdf,360.76 KB)
- Zahra Taheri – Women in Rumi’s Spiritual Circle (pdf,236.91 KB)
- Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers – Plato’s Loves and Shakespeare’s Women: Tamora and the Dark Lady (pdf,157.99 KB)
- Clare Williamson – Safavid Persia Through the Eyes of French Travellers (pdf,705.63 KB)
- Shelley Meagher – Politics and Persian Mythology in Irish Poetry (pdf,260.42 KB)
- Marcelo Stamm – ‘Twofold and yet One’: constellating creativity between Goethe and Hafiz (pdf,361.35 KB)
- Barbara Brend – From Persia and Beyond: a discussion of the illustrations to a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi in the State... (pdf,310.65 KB)
- Lesley Forbes – Behind the Scenes: the Bodleian Library’s Mughal paintings of ‘Love and Devotion’ (pdf,388.52 KB)
- Mario Casari – ‘The Conceits of Poetry’: Firdausi’s Shahnama and the discovery of Persian in early modern Europe (pdf,386.65 KB)
- Hossein Valamanesh –Heart of the Fire (pdf,203.49 KB)
- Ali Alizadeh – Sufis of the Antipodes: the ghazal in contemporary Australian poetry (pdf,162.98 KB)
- Anne Démy-Geroe – Persian or Islamic?: depictions of love in contemporary Iranian cinema (pdf,208.69 KB)
- Gay Breyley – ‘The Language of Love’: the legacy of Persian poetry and music in contemporary Iran (pdf,164.58 KB)
- Mammad Aidani – Acts of Devotion in Persian Classical Texts: self and friendship in Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi’s poetry (pdf,253.72 KB)
- [Back matter] (pdf,473.2 KB)