The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric

Chapter 1 Introduction: Nizami Ganjavi and His Poetry

Chapter 2 A Comparison of Nizami’s Layli and Majnun and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 3 Layla Grows Up: Nizami’s Layla and Majnun “in The Turkish Manner”

Chapter 4 Nizami’s Unlikely Heroines: A Study of the Characterizations of Women in Classical Persian Literature

Chapter 5 Majnun’s Image as a Serpent

Chapter 6 The Historian and the Poet: Rāvandī, Nizami, and the Rhetoric of History

Chapter 7 Occult Sciences in The Iskandarnameh of Nizami

Chapter 8 Nizami’s Poetry Versus Scientific Knowledge: The Case of the Pomegranate

Chapter 10 The Story of the Ascension (Mi’raj) in Nizami’s Work

Chapter 11 International Recognition of Nizami’s Work: A Bibliography