Nizami Aruzi
Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī (Persian: نظامی عروضی) and also Arudi ("The Prosodist"), was a poet and prose writer[1][2] who flourished between 1110 and 1161. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala[3] ("Four Discourses"), his only work to fully survive. While living in Samarqand, Abu’l-Rajaʾ Ahmad b. ʿAbd-Al-Ṣamad, a dehqan in Transoxiana, told Nezami of how the poet Rudaki was given compensation for his poem extolling the virtues of Samanid Amir Nasr b. Ahmad.[4]
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Nizámí-i'Arúdí’s The Chahár Maqála, or Four Discourses, is a book consisting of four discourses on four different professionals that Nizami believed a king needs to have in his palace; in the preface of the book, Nizami discusses the philosophical or religious ideology of the creation of the world and the order of things. While he was primarily a courtier, he noted in his book that he was an astronomer and physician as well.
In the introduction to the Chahar Maqala, Aruzi elaborates on issues of
The Chahar Maqala has been translated into several languages, such as English, French, Swedish,[9] Turkish, Urdu, Russian and Arabic.[5]
See also
- Persian Literature
- List of Persian poets and authors
References
- ^ a b c d Dahlén 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Massé 1995.
- ^ texte, Al-QĀSIM ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī (Abū Muḥammad) Auteur du (1201–1300). Les Maqâmât d'Aboû Moḥammad al-Qâsim ibn ʿAlî al-Ḥarîrî.
- ^ ʿĀBEDĪ, C.E. Bosworth, The Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ^ a b c d e Yusofi 1990, pp. 621–623.
- ^ Nizami Aruzi, A Revised Translation of the Chahár maqála ("Four discourses") of Nizámí-i'Arúdí of Samarqand, followed by an abridged translation of Mírzá Muhammad's notes to the Persian text"pdf here" (PDF)., Edward Browne, ed. (London: for Cambridge University Press, 1921), x.
- ^ Nizami Aruzi, A Revised Translation of the Chahár maqála ("Four discourses"), xi, 74, 96.
- ^ Browne, Literary History of Persia, Vol. 2, p. 337.
- ^ Fyra skrifter, övers. och inledning av Ashk Dahlén, Stockholm: Atlantis bokförlag, 2010.
Sources
- Dahlén, Ashk (2009), "Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi ʽAruzi", Orientalia Suecana, vol. 58, Uppsala: Uppsala University, pp. 9–24.
- Massé, H. (1995). "Niẓāmī ʿArūḍī Samarḳandī". In ISBN 978-90-04-09834-3.
- Yusofi, Gholam-Hosayn (1990). "Čahār Maqāla". In ISBN 978-0-71009-129-1.
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