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Nigāristān by Mu‘īn al-Dīn Mu‘īnī Juvainī: A Facsimile Edition.

Series: Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature Series 17
Availability: In stock
Published: 2023
Page #: xii + 420
Size: 11x 8.5
ISBN: 978-1565893609
plates, bibliography, index

 
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Nigāristān (compiled 1334–5) is an important work of Persian wisdom literature and one of the first works written on the model of, and in response to, the Guilstān of Saʿdī. Its author, Mu‘īnī Juvainī, was a writer and member of the Ḥamavī Sufi community Baḥrābād. Compiled shortly before the sudden collapse of the Ilkhanate empire, Nigāristān provides glimpses of the last moments of the flourishing Persian literary culture of the late Ilkhanate court. It is rich source for the study of Persian ethics and literary history. Despite its historical and literary significance, the text has largely been neglected by scholars.




This facsimile edition presents, indexes, and studies a manuscript presumably produced in India during the first regnal year of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1657). The manuscript was eventually used by the Orientalist Edward Rehatsek (1819–1891) as the basis of the first (and, to date, only) English translation of Nigāristān, which Rehatsek produced as The Picture Gallery (1888) for the Kama Shastra Society of Richard Francis Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot. The introduction to the present edition studies the Nigāristsān in detail for the first time in English. It provides historical information about the text and its author, studies Nigāristān as a literary response to the Gulistān, analyzes the influence of Nigāristān on Persian wisdom literature at the Timurid court, and surveys its long history of reception in India. The introduction also includes information about the history of the manuscript, its use as a source for Rehatsek's translation, and a brief introduction to its Shikastah forms. This facsimile edition also includes the first detailed Persian index of Nigāristān to facilitate access and comparative study.



author

Gregory Maxwell Bruce

Gregory Maxwell Bruce lectures in Urdu language and literature in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Asian Cultures and Languages from the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught Urdu-medium courses on literature, Islamic mysticism, and South Asian culture in the Hindi-Urdu Flagship Program. His research interests lie at the intersection of literary aesthetics, intellectual history, and religious studies. His current projects include a book-length study of the historian Shibli Nomani, English translations of Urdu literature, an Urdu vocabulary acquisition textbook, and articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He writes ghazal poetry in Urdu and Persian, and has performed at mushairas and other literary events in the United States and India.

Areas of Interest:
Intellectual history; Islam; South Asia; Urdu literature

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Transliteration and Page References ix
Editor’s Introduction 1
Indices 31
Index to the Editor’s Introduction 32
Note on the Persian Index 35
Persian Index to Nigāristān ۳۰۲
Nigāristān ۱
Persian Table of Contents

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