Kullīyāt-i Jāmī, ma'a, Mas̲navī Ḥāz̲iq, Yūsuf Zulaykhā fī al-ḥāshiyah

Title	Kullīyāt-i Jāmī, ma'a, Mas̲navī Ḥāz̲iq, Yūsuf Zulaykhā fī al-ḥāshiyah
Publication Date:	1905
Subject	Uzbekistan
Type	Book
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Harvard Library
Library Asset ID	LCCN: 2006333582, LCCallNum: PK6490 .A1 1905
Record ID	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2006333582
Library Location	ONLINE ACCESS
Date	1905
Notes	This volume contains an anthology of the poetic works of the celebrated 15th-century poet Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-92). A prolific author who enjoyed a long association with the Timurid court at Herat, Jami appears to have been uninterested in wealth or success. Instead, he held deep Sufi convictions that were expressed through his poetry as well as through his association with the Naqshbandi order. Evidence of his spiritual yearnings can be seen, as well, in his interest in the mysticism of Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240). Celebrated for his prodigious abilities in the various genres of Persian poetry, Jami was a major influence on the literature of Central Asia, Persia, Turkey, and India. He also influenced the development of Chagatai poetry through his friendship with the renowned Timurid vizier Alishir Nava'i (1441-1501). The present work commences with a collection of Jami's qasa'id (singular qasida; purposful poems, with panegyric, elegiac, didactic, or religious content, and growing out of the rich qasida tradition of Arabic) and continues with a presentation of ghazals (shorter poems of five to 15 distichs, on mystical love and other topics), muqatta't (fragments), and rubaʻiyati (quatrains). Included in the margins of this work is a verse setting of the story of Yusuf (i.e., Joseph) and Zulaykha (or Zulaikha). The most celebrated of the many verse settings of this story is indeed that by Jami himself. Somewhat unexpectedly, the version of the poem in this volume is the work of the little-known 19th-century poet Junayd Allah Haziq. It is likely that Junayd Allah was born in Faryab (in northern Afghanistan), although the appellation Haravi that frequently accompanies his name suggests that he spent least part of his life in Herat. If the epigrammatic poem that appears in the colophon is to be trusted, Junayd Allah died by execution. The same poem indicates the year of his death as 1259 AH (1843-44). The present volume was printed lithographically at the O.A. Portsev press in Tashkent in 1905-6. World Digital Library.
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Kullīyāt-i Jāmī, ma'a, Mas̲navī Ḥāz̲iq, Yūsuf Zulaykhā fī al-ḥāshiyah

Publication Date 1905

Subject Uzbekistan

Type Book

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Harvard Library

Library Asset ID LCCN: 2006333582, LCCallNum: PK6490 .A1 1905

Record ID TN_cdi_loca_primary_2006333582

Library Location ONLINE ACCESS

Date 1905

Notes This volume contains an anthology of the poetic works of the celebrated 15th-century poet Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-92). A prolific author who enjoyed a long association with the Timurid court at Herat, Jami appears to have been uninterested in wealth or success. Instead, he held deep Sufi convictions that were expressed through his poetry as well as through his association with the Naqshbandi order. Evidence of his spiritual yearnings can be seen, as well, in his interest in the mysticism of Muhyi al-Din ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240). Celebrated for his prodigious abilities in the various genres of Persian poetry, Jami was a major influence on the literature of Central Asia, Persia, Turkey, and India. He also influenced the development of Chagatai poetry through his friendship with the renowned Timurid vizier Alishir Nava'i (1441-1501). The present work commences with a collection of Jami's qasa'id (singular qasida; purposful poems, with panegyric, elegiac, didactic, or religious content, and growing out of the rich qasida tradition of Arabic) and continues with a presentation of ghazals (shorter poems of five to 15 distichs, on mystical love and other topics), muqatta't (fragments), and rubaʻiyati (quatrains). Included in the margins of this work is a verse setting of the story of Yusuf (i.e., Joseph) and Zulaykha (or Zulaikha). The most celebrated of the many verse settings of this story is indeed that by Jami himself. Somewhat unexpectedly, the version of the poem in this volume is the work of the little-known 19th-century poet Junayd Allah Haziq. It is likely that Junayd Allah was born in Faryab (in northern Afghanistan), although the appellation Haravi that frequently accompanies his name suggests that he spent least part of his life in Herat. If the epigrammatic poem that appears in the colophon is to be trusted, Junayd Allah died by execution. The same poem indicates the year of his death as 1259 AH (1843-44). The present volume was printed lithographically at the O.A. Portsev press in Tashkent in 1905-6. World Digital Library.

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Başlık Kullīyāt-i Jāmī, maʻa, Mas̲navī Ḥāz̲iq, Yūsuf Zulaykhā fī al-ḥāshiyah