Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders - Amir Khusraw Dihlavi

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world. Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dibacha-yi divan-i ghurrat al-kamal became a lauded work in its own right. Its author, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (1253–1325), was a poet, historian, courtier, Sufi, and musician whose influence still resonates. In this extraordinary text, he defends poetry against its critics, especially religious scholars, while offering a bold system for understanding its forms... Zobrazit více