One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, F. D.
One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales.
- Published
- A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, ed. Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2012), pp. 137-203.
- Description
- Describes and discusses two analogues to the pear tree episode in MerT (and in Boccaccio's "Decameron"), one in Persian by Rumi in his "Mathnavī," and one in Arabic by Ibn al-Jawzi in his "Kitāb al-adhkiyā'." Also describes and discusses two analogues to MLT, one in Persian by Farid al-Din Attar in his "Elahi-Nameh" ("Ilāhī-nāmā") and an earlier one in Arabic by al-Kulaynī in the "Kitāb al-kāfī." Throughout, includes attention to other source-and-analogue information that relates to the episodes, and includes as appendices transliterations and English translations of the Persian and Arabic materials, with the exception of Attar's Chaste Maiden account.
- Contributor
- A. A. Seyed-Gohrab, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
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