Pearls of Meanings offers a collection of essays by J. T. P. (Hans) de Bruijn, a pivotal and leading scholar of Persian studies. The volume covers a number of essential domains of Persian culture, with a particular emphasis on poetry and Sufism. Poetry and the reception of Persian literature in Europe both play pivotal roles in these essays, thereby representing the studies of a generation of Persian cultural scholars such as A. Reland (1676–1718), C. H. Ethé (1844–1917), J. F. von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), and E. G. Browne (1862–1926). Pearls of Meanings is an essential cornerstone for scholars working in Persian studies.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- “A Noose of Light”
- Publications of J.T.P. de Bruijn
- Persian Art and Material Culture
- A Religious Subject on a Persian Qalamkār
- Persian Literature
- Poets and Minstrels in Early Persian Literature
- The Transmission of Early Persian Ghazals
- The Individuality of the Persian Khafīf Metre
- The Stories of Sanā’ī’s Fakhrīnāma
- The Name of the Poet in Classical Persian Poetry
- Chains of Gold
- Anvarī and the Ghazal
- Some Strip of Herbage
- Spring versus Autumn
- Islamic Mysticism (Sūfīsm)
- The Religious Use of Persian Poetry
- Sanā’ī and the Rise of Persian Mystical Poetry
- The Qalandariyyāt in Persian Mystical Poetry, from Sanā’ī onwards
- The Preaching Poet
- Of Poetry and Power
- Oriental Studies
- Iranian Studies in the Netherlands
- The Persian Studies of Adriaan Reland (16761718)
- Between Hammer and Browne
- J.T.P. de Bruijn’s Poetry in Dutch, English, and Persian
- Occasional Poetry
- Persian Sextets
- Quatrains for Today
- Holland Haikus
- Notes
- Bibliography
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