Contributed articles presented at the workshop at Central University of Hyderabad, 22-25 January 2007 titled fragrance, symmetry and light: the history of gardens and garden culture in the Deccan.
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"The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, hi…
"The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, hi…
"The necklace of the Pleiades" is a volume on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world. This book reflects the state of the field of Persian literary studies and will be of substantial interest not only to scholars of Iranian culture, hi…
Abū Ṭālib Khān Tabrīzī Iṣfahānī (1166–1220/1752 or 1753–1805 or 1806) was a Persian author and traveller born and raised in Lucknow, the son of Ḥājji Muḥammad Beg Khān (d. 1182/1768), an Iranian settled in India. He spent his early years in Murshidābād and in 1189/1775 aft…
Abū l-Qāsim Najm al-Dīn Muḥammad Kāhī (d. 988/1580) was a scholar and professional Persian poet who was connected chiefly to the courts of the Mughal emperors Humāyūn (r. 937–47/1530–40 and 962–3/1555–6) and Akbar (r. 963–1014/1556–1605). He was born in Mian Kal, in Central Asia…
Masʿūd-i Saʿd-i Salmān (b. 438–41/1046–9?, d. 515/1121–2) was a Persian court poet and royal librarian of the later Ghaznavid period. His dīvān (collected poems) contains many references—including poems in the form of fatḥ-nāma s (books of victories)—to the conquests of Indian c…
Mullā Muḥammad Saʿīd Ashraf Māzandarānī (b. c.1030–5/1620–6, d. 1116/1704) was one of the last great Iranian émigré poets at the Mughal court in India. The evidence from his poems and from biographical dictionaries suggests that he was born in Māzandarān (a province of northern …