A Two-Colored Brocade: The Imagery of Persian Poetry

by Annemarie Schimmel

Book Overview

Annemarie Schimmel, one of the world's foremost authorities on Persian literature, provides a comprehensive introduction to the complicated and highly sophisticated system of rhetoric and imagery used by the poets of Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and Muslim India. She shows that these images have been used and refined over the centuries and reflect the changing conditions in the Muslim world.

According to Schimmel, Persian poetry does not aim to be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856207
• ISBN13: 9780807856208
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 558 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"