"Tale of the Righteous Woman (whose Husband Had Gone on a Journey": A Poetic Translation from the "Elahi-Nameh" of Farid Al-Din Attar.

Author / Editor
Lewis, Franklin D.

Title
"Tale of the Righteous Woman (whose Husband Had Gone on a Journey": A Poetic Translation from the "Elahi-Nameh" of Farid Al-Din Attar.

Published
Wali Ahmadi, ed. Converging Zones: Persian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History; Studies in Honor of Amin Banini (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2012), pp. 200-219.

Description
Translates into modern English verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) the initial tale of Farid Al-Din Attar's story collection "Elahi-Nameh" (Persian, twelfth century), an analogue to MLT.

Contributor
Wali Ahmadi, ed.

Alternative Title
Converging Zones: Persian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History; Studies in Honor of Amin Banini.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Source, Analogues, and Literary Relations