Author : Alice C. Hunsberger
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781850439196
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Book Synopsis Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan by : Alice C. Hunsberger
Download or read book Nasir Khusraw, the Ruby of Badakhshan written by Alice C. Hunsberger and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2000-10-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned poet, philosopher and traveller of the 11th century, Nasir-i Khusraw was also a major Ismaili thinker and author of the Iranian lands. His Ismaili writings, exclusively in Persian, have been preserved through the centuries by the Ismaili communities of the upper Oxus and Badakhshan, now situated in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. This is a study of Nasir-i Khusraw's life and aspects of his theological and philosophical thought in the context of his times. The author has devoted more than ten years of study to this subject, and includes in the book a detailed classification of Nasir's different genres of writings, and a summary of medieval as well as modern biographical studies.