Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance (World's Classics) by Nizami Ganjavi, Julie Scott Meisami

Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance (World's Classics)

Nizami Ganjavi, Julie Scott Meisami

368 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

fiction classics poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The romance of the Haft Paykar ("Seven Beauties") is one of the great works of Persian literature. Completed in 1197 by the poet Nizami of Ganja, it is an allegorical romance of great beauty and depth, and its central theme of self-knowledge as th...

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