This dissertation seeks to demonstrate that Jam i's Salaman va Absal, an allegorical Persian romance dismissed by modern scholarship as a bizarre tale about an incestuous relationship between a youth and his wet-nurse, is actually a sophisticated book of advice for a medieval Is…
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The era of the Timurids, the dynasty that ruled Transoxiana, Iran, and Afghanistan from 1370 to 1506 had a profound cultural and artistic impact on the history of Central Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and Mughal India in the early modern era. While Timurid fine art such as miniature…
`Abd al-Rah[dotbelow]man Jam i (d. 898/1492), an outstanding late medieval intellectual and poet from Central Asia, had a major influence on the intellectual, religious, and literary history of the Islamic civilization. The current study provides a detailed biography of Jami in …