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Exploring Intersections between Nizami and Dante
before and after medievality
Series: - Literary Reception & Art Reception, Volume: 2
This book takes readers on a journey across eras, exploring cultural, philosophical, and literary parallels between Islamic and Christian civilizations through the lens of medieval poets Nizami and Dante. Using the concept of 'before and after' as a platform for comparative analysis, it offers a fresh perspective on medieval cultural heritage and reveals modern reinterpretations. Through discussions of medieval symbols as beauty, wine, sage, sacred and profane passion, moral foundations, the book sheds light on medieval symbols and the evolving role of love in the human spirit. Perfect for scholars and curious readers seeking to bridge historical divides and explore the legacies of the past.
Rahilya Geybullayeva is PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University (1989) and Full Professor at Baku Slavic University. She was a recipient of UNESCO, Carnegie, and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a visiting scholar at SOAS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UC Berkeley, and Harvard University. Geybullayeva has authored numerous monographs and articles focusing on the intersections of comparative literature, culture, religion, literary historiography, and sociology. Among her recent publications are: chapter "Semiolinguistic look on mythology, cultural history and meanings of places in Azerbaijan" in Transcending Signs (2023) and The Interpretation of Nizami's Cultural Heritage in the Contemporary Period(2020).
Nunzio Ruggiero is Full Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature within the Humanities Department of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples (UniSOB). He teaches Italian Literature and Literary Criticism, in the Degree Courses in Foreign Languages, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology. His main area of research is the study of the Neapolitan cultural life in the XIX and XX centuries, within an international perspective which underlines the role of Naples as European capital. Among his recent publications: Paesaggio 1922-2022. Centâanni della legge Croce, ed. by F. Mangone, N. Ruggiero (2022); Una capitale del XIX secolo. La cultura letteraria a Napoli tra Europa e nuova Italia (2020).
Maria Teresa Giaveri has been Professor of Comparative Literature and French Literature at different Italian Universities and at C.N.R.S (Paris). She is a member of the Accademia delle Scienze (Torino) and of the Accademia Peloritana (Palermo, Messina); she is Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (France), editor of numerous scientific journals, vice-president of Pen Club Italia and of Società Italiana di Traduttologia. Among her books is âMeridiani Mondadoriâ Colette and Valéry (2000, 2014), the Correspondence Einstein - Valéry (2020) and the best-seller Lady Montagu e il Dragomanno. Viaggio avventuroso alle origini dei vaccini (2021).
Nunzio Ruggiero is Full Professor in Contemporary Italian Literature within the Humanities Department of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples (UniSOB). He teaches Italian Literature and Literary Criticism, in the Degree Courses in Foreign Languages, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology. His main area of research is the study of the Neapolitan cultural life in the XIX and XX centuries, within an international perspective which underlines the role of Naples as European capital. Among his recent publications: Paesaggio 1922-2022. Centâanni della legge Croce, ed. by F. Mangone, N. Ruggiero (2022); Una capitale del XIX secolo. La cultura letteraria a Napoli tra Europa e nuova Italia (2020).
Maria Teresa Giaveri has been Professor of Comparative Literature and French Literature at different Italian Universities and at C.N.R.S (Paris). She is a member of the Accademia delle Scienze (Torino) and of the Accademia Peloritana (Palermo, Messina); she is Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (France), editor of numerous scientific journals, vice-president of Pen Club Italia and of Società Italiana di Traduttologia. Among her books is âMeridiani Mondadoriâ Colette and Valéry (2000, 2014), the Correspondence Einstein - Valéry (2020) and the best-seller Lady Montagu e il Dragomanno. Viaggio avventuroso alle origini dei vaccini (2021).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 The Philology and Philosophy Of Love: Before and During Medievality
âRahilya Geybullayeva
2 âLove That Moves the Sun and Starsâ: Earthly and Divine Love in the Works of Nizami and Dante
âBella Musaeva
3 Love, Death and the Spiritual Quest in the Poetry of Dante and NeáºÄmi
âNahid Norozi
4 Dante in the 20th Century: A Title, a Rhythm, a Love Denied
âMaria Teresa Giaveri
5 âIo dico dâAmore come se fosse una cosa per séâ. The Personification of Love in the Vita Nova
âAnnarita Placella
6 Annaâs Love: Danteâs Journeys into Akhmatovaâs Realm
âFatima FestiÄ
7 The Recognition of the Beloved: Khusraw and Shririn Meet at the Palace
âGiorgia Maffioli Brigatti
8 Synergetic Aspects of the Artistic Text Based on Nizamiâs Iskandar-Nama
âParvana Isaeva
9 Alexander, the Biological Mutant of Nizami and Islamic Mythology: An Axiological Analysis
âAydin Talibzadeh
10 The Imaginative Pathway from Fire to Rocks: A Phenomenological Analysis of Matter in Nizami and Dante
âCarlo Caccia
11 The Water Archetype in Nizamiâs Iskandar-Nama and Danteâs Divine Comedy
âElnara Garagyezova
12 The Concept of âSoulâ as Interpreted by Nizami Ganjavi and Dante Alighieri
âRafig Novruzov
13 Comparison of Attitudes towards Religious Saints in the Work of Nizami and Dante
âTahira Mammad
14 Cross-Cultural Lines in the Works of Nizami Ganjavi and Dante Alighieri
âAzizaga Najafzadeh
15 The Chronotope of the Encounter of NizÄmÄ«âs and Danteâs Walking Heroes: The Strength of Human Reality in the Divine Order
âStefania Sini
16 Eight Stations on the Silk Road of World Literature: From Confucius to Pushkin: Confucius (6th Century BCE)âFirdausi (11th Century)âNizami (12th Century)âMevlana (13th Century)âDante (14th Century)âShakespeare (16thâ17th Century)âPushkin (19th Century)âGoethe (18thâ19th Century)
âTeymur Kerimli
17 Miâraj (the Ascension): A Source of Spiritual Ascension for Nizami and Dante
âNasib Goyushov
18 The Divine Comedy of the Argentine Cultural Ãlite and the Divine Comedy of the People: From Bartolomeo Mitre to Palacio Barolo
âNicola Bottiglieri
19 Nizamiâs Philosophy of History
âHamlet Isakhanli
20 1921: Dante on the Frontier: Notes on the Reception of The Divine Comedy between Italy and the Balkans
âNunzio Ruggiero
21 âO Great Father Alighierâ: Intertextuality and Danteâs Suggestions during the Eighteenth Century
âCarla Forno
22 From Nizami to Y. Vakhtangov: How an Oriental Princess Became a Symbol of the New Russian Theatre of the Twentieth Century
âMarina Merkulova
23 âMelancholy, Thoughtful Faceâ: Dante by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âVincenzo Salerno
24 Nizami Ganjavi as a Connoisseur of Human Psychology Based on Parables in the Iskandar-Nama
âFidana Musayeva
25 Nizamiâs Fairy Tale Language and the Place of Fairy Tales in Psychology Based on the Poem Seven Beauties
âUlkar Yusifova
26 The Heuristic Value of Nizami Ganjaviâs Ideas
âNizami Mammadov
27 Poetry and Theology in Dante and NezÄmi
âCarlo Saccone
28 Real Life and the Human Being behind the Divine and Historical Layer in Nizamiâs Khamsa and Danteâs Divine Comedy
âRafael Huseynov
29 In Search of Dantean / Religious Moments in Nezami Ganjaviâs âStory of Mahanâ
âKamran Talattof
30 The Space of Danteâs Divine Comedy in the Semiotics of Yuri Lotman: A View from the 21st Century
âInna Merkulova
31 The Body of Translation: Le Roman de la Rose and the Formalization of the Embodied Experience of the Linguistic Act in the Italian and English Literary Traditions
âAlberto Gabriele
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Part 1 The Concept of Love and Medievality
1 The Philology and Philosophy Of Love: Before and During Medievality
âRahilya Geybullayeva
2 âLove That Moves the Sun and Starsâ: Earthly and Divine Love in the Works of Nizami and Dante
âBella Musaeva
3 Love, Death and the Spiritual Quest in the Poetry of Dante and NeáºÄmi
âNahid Norozi
4 Dante in the 20th Century: A Title, a Rhythm, a Love Denied
âMaria Teresa Giaveri
5 âIo dico dâAmore come se fosse una cosa per séâ. The Personification of Love in the Vita Nova
âAnnarita Placella
Part 2 The Semiotics of Love: Between Profane and Sacred
6 Annaâs Love: Danteâs Journeys into Akhmatovaâs Realm
âFatima FestiÄ
7 The Recognition of the Beloved: Khusraw and Shririn Meet at the Palace
âGiorgia Maffioli Brigatti
8 Synergetic Aspects of the Artistic Text Based on Nizamiâs Iskandar-Nama
âParvana Isaeva
Part 3 Semiotics of Archetypes
9 Alexander, the Biological Mutant of Nizami and Islamic Mythology: An Axiological Analysis
âAydin Talibzadeh
10 The Imaginative Pathway from Fire to Rocks: A Phenomenological Analysis of Matter in Nizami and Dante
âCarlo Caccia
11 The Water Archetype in Nizamiâs Iskandar-Nama and Danteâs Divine Comedy
âElnara Garagyezova
Part 4 Semiotics at the Crossroads of Religions
12 The Concept of âSoulâ as Interpreted by Nizami Ganjavi and Dante Alighieri
âRafig Novruzov
13 Comparison of Attitudes towards Religious Saints in the Work of Nizami and Dante
âTahira Mammad
14 Cross-Cultural Lines in the Works of Nizami Ganjavi and Dante Alighieri
âAzizaga Najafzadeh
Part 5 Semiotics: Life as a Journey
15 The Chronotope of the Encounter of NizÄmÄ«âs and Danteâs Walking Heroes: The Strength of Human Reality in the Divine Order
âStefania Sini
16 Eight Stations on the Silk Road of World Literature: From Confucius to Pushkin: Confucius (6th Century BCE)âFirdausi (11th Century)âNizami (12th Century)âMevlana (13th Century)âDante (14th Century)âShakespeare (16thâ17th Century)âPushkin (19th Century)âGoethe (18thâ19th Century)
âTeymur Kerimli
17 Miâraj (the Ascension): A Source of Spiritual Ascension for Nizami and Dante
âNasib Goyushov
Part 6 Cultural Legacy and Interpretation
18 The Divine Comedy of the Argentine Cultural Ãlite and the Divine Comedy of the People: From Bartolomeo Mitre to Palacio Barolo
âNicola Bottiglieri
19 Nizamiâs Philosophy of History
âHamlet Isakhanli
20 1921: Dante on the Frontier: Notes on the Reception of The Divine Comedy between Italy and the Balkans
âNunzio Ruggiero
21 âO Great Father Alighierâ: Intertextuality and Danteâs Suggestions during the Eighteenth Century
âCarla Forno
22 From Nizami to Y. Vakhtangov: How an Oriental Princess Became a Symbol of the New Russian Theatre of the Twentieth Century
âMarina Merkulova
23 âMelancholy, Thoughtful Faceâ: Dante by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
âVincenzo Salerno
Part 7 Human Psychology and Spirit
24 Nizami Ganjavi as a Connoisseur of Human Psychology Based on Parables in the Iskandar-Nama
âFidana Musayeva
25 Nizamiâs Fairy Tale Language and the Place of Fairy Tales in Psychology Based on the Poem Seven Beauties
âUlkar Yusifova
Part 8 Theology, Allegory and Spirituality in Dante and NezÄmi
26 The Heuristic Value of Nizami Ganjaviâs Ideas
âNizami Mammadov
27 Poetry and Theology in Dante and NezÄmi
âCarlo Saccone
28 Real Life and the Human Being behind the Divine and Historical Layer in Nizamiâs Khamsa and Danteâs Divine Comedy
âRafael Huseynov
29 In Search of Dantean / Religious Moments in Nezami Ganjaviâs âStory of Mahanâ
âKamran Talattof
Part 9 Semiotics and Medievality
30 The Space of Danteâs Divine Comedy in the Semiotics of Yuri Lotman: A View from the 21st Century
âInna Merkulova
31 The Body of Translation: Le Roman de la Rose and the Formalization of the Embodied Experience of the Linguistic Act in the Italian and English Literary Traditions
âAlberto Gabriele
Index
This book is ideal for scholars, students, and readers interested in comparative literature and culture, medieval studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, and the cultural intersections of Islamic and Christian civilizations.