Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry Iran Studies Editorial Board Ali Gheissari University of San Diego, CA Roy P. Mottahedeh Harvard University Yann Richard Sorbonne Nouvelle Christoph Werner University of Marburg VOLUME 6 Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry Edited by Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 Cover illustration: Combat between Rostam and Sohrab. Courtesy of the Leiden University Library, Cod.Or. 494, f. 90 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seyed-Gohrab, A. A. (Ali Asghar), 1968-  Metaphor and imagery in Persian poetry / edited by Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab.   p. cm. — (Iran studies, ISSN 1569-7401 ; v. 6)  Includes index.  ISBN 978-90-04-21125-4 (hardback : acid-free paper)   1. Persian poetry—History and criticism. 2. Imagery (Psychology) in literature. 3. Metaphor in literature. 4. Poetics—History. I. Title.  PK6420.I43S49 2011  891’.51—dc23 2011034528 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.nl/brill-typeface. ISSN 1569-7401 ISBN 978 90 04 21125 4 Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. To Johan ter Haar CONTENTS Acknowledgеments  ......................................................................................... ix Introduction: Persian Rhetorical Figures  .................................................. 1  A.A. Seyed-Gohrab Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and Poetic Imagination in the Arabic and Persian Philosophical Tradition  ............................................................................. 15  J. Landau Kāshifī’s Powerful Metaphor: The Energising Trope  ............................ 67  Ch. van Ruymbeke Waxing Eloquent: The Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Ḥāfijiẓ and his Predecessors  ....................................... 81  A.A. Seyed-Gohrab Love and the Metaphors of Wine and Drunkenness in Persian Sufiji Poetry  .............................................................................................................. 125  N. Pourjavady One Chaste Muslim Maiden and a Persian in a Pear Tree: Analogues of Boccaccio and Chaucer in Four Earlier Arabic and Persian Tales  ................................................................................................. 137  F.D. Lewis Translating Persian Metaphors into English  ........................................... 205  A. Sedighi The Ring as a Token in the Barzū-nāma: On the Importance of Lineage and Origin  ..................................................................................... 215  G.R. van den Berg The Function of the Catalogue of Poets in Persian Poetry  ................ 231  S. Sharma viii contents The Origins of the Munāẓara Genre in New Persian Literature  ....................................................................................................... 249  F. Abdullaeva Index  .................................................................................................................... 275 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientifijic Research (NWO) for their generous VENI award (2002–2006), which resulted in various articles and the book Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry. I would also like to acknowledge my gratitude to the Leiden University Fund (LUF), the former Centre for Non-Western Studies (CNWS) and the Netherlands-Iran Society, for their fijinancial support for academic meetings on metaphors in the Persian and Islamic literary traditions. I would like to express my thankfulness to my friend Sen McGlinn, who meticulously read many chapters of the manuscript and offfered me many invaluable editorial suggestions. I am most grateful to my student-assis- tant Amin Ghodratzadeh, who read the manuscript and made the indis- pensable index. I am also indebted to the editors of the editorial board of Iran Studies for their invaluable comments and suggestions, saving me from many inconsistencies. Finally, I would like to thank Nicolette van der Hoek, Renee Otto, and Kathy van Vliet-Leigh at Brill for their ceaseless effforts and encouragements. Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab