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Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale | Vol. 56 | Giugno 2020

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Aishī’s ʿIshrat-nāma: a Dah-nāma with Unexpected Messengers

Anna Livia Beelaert    

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In the first part of this article I presented an edition with a short introduction of ʿAishī Shīrāzī’s ʿIshrat-nāma, a poem belonging to the dah-nāma genre. In this second part I discuss the messengers who convey the messengers between the two lovers. At the request of his patron, ʿInāyat, an amir of the Aq-Quyūnlū Khalīl b. Uzun Ḥasan, instead of the usual messenger, the wind, ʿAishī chose for ten musical instruments. I argue that the choice of these instruments, and the way they are decribed, are not accidental but subtly convey the evolution of the protagonists’ feelings.

Pubblicato
30 Giugno 2020
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EN

Keywords: ʿIshrat-nāma • ʿAishī Shīrāzī • Messenger motif • Musical instruments • Dah-nāma • Mathnawī

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2020/56/008

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