Pearls of Meanings Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Sufism and History of Iranian Studies in Europe.J.T.P. de Bruijn / edited by Hans Bruijn. [electronic resource]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Pearls of Meanings -- cover -- Def -- 9789400603820 -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- "A Noose of Light" -- Publications of J.T.P. de Bruijn -- Persian Art and Material Culture -- A Religious Subject on a Persian Qalamkār -- Persian Literature -- Poets and Minstrels in Early Persian Literature -- The Transmission of Early Persian Ghazals -- The Individuality of the Persian Khafīf Metre -- The Stories of Sanā'ī's Fakhrīnāma -- The Name of the Poet in Classical Persian Poetry -- Chains of Gold -- Anvarī and the Ghazal -- Some Strip of Herbage -- Spring versus Autumn -- Islamic Mysticism (Sūfīsm) -- The Religious Use of Persian Poetry -- Sanā'ī and the Rise of Persian Mystical Poetry -- The Qalandariyyāt in Persian Mystical Poetry, from Sanā'ī onwards -- The Preaching Poet -- Of Poetry and Power -- Oriental Studies -- Iranian Studies in the Netherlands -- The Persian Studies of Adriaan Reland (16761718) -- Between Hammer and Browne -- J.T.P. de Bruijn's Poetry in Dutch, English, and Persian -- Occasional Poetry -- Persian Sextets -- Quatrains for Today -- Holland Haikus -- Notes -- Bibliography

Pearls of Meanings offers a collection of essays by J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn, leading scholar in the field of Persian Studies, in which essential domains of Persian culture such as poetry and Sufism are analyzed in an exemplary fashion. While poetry plays a pivotal position in these essays, the reception of Persian literary tradition in Europe is another focus of the volume, thereby representing the studies of a generation of scholars such as A. Reland (1676-1718), C.H. Ethé (1844-1917), J.F. von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856) and E.G. Browne (1862-1926) who devoted their attention to Persian cul.

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