Haft Awrang

Haft Awrang

Haft Awrang (Persian: هفت اورنگ meaning Seven Thrones) by Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami is a classic of Persian literature composed some time between 1468 to 1485. Jami completed the work as seven books in masnavi form:

* Silsilat al-dhahab (Persian: سلسلة الذهب Chain of Gold): a collections of didactic anecdotes
* Yusuf o Zulaikha (Persian: یوسف و زلیخا Joseph and Zulaikha): the romance of Joseph and Zulaikha, wife of Potiphar based on the Islamic traditions.
* Sabhat al-abrar (Persian: سبحة الابرار Rosary of the Pious): another collections of didactic anecdotes
* Salaman o Absal (Persian: سلامان و ابسال Salaman and Absal): another romance. The original story is Greek, translated in the early Islamic times to Arabic by Ibn Hunain and then rendered into Persian poem by Jami. Dehkhoda suggests that this might have an Israelite origin.
* Tuhfat al-ahrar (Persian: تحفة الاحرار Gift of the Free)
* Layli o Majnun (Persian: لیلی و مجنون)
* Khiradnama-i Iskandari (Persian: خردنامه‌ی اسکندری Alexander's Book of Wisdom) combines allegorical Alexander romance with didactic discourse.

The term Haft Awrang itself is a reference to seven stars that form Big Dipper (Big Bear or دب اکبر).

Religion, philosophy, and ethics of Sufi origin lie at the root of all seven masnavis.

Freer Jami

In 1556, Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, son-in-law of Shah Tahmasb, commissioned court painters and calligraphers to create a sumptuous illustrated version of the Haft Awrang. This eventual nine year undertaking has produced one of the undoubted masterpieces of Safavid art. Currently housed in the Freer Gallery of Art, this manuscript is referred to as the Freer Jami.

References

* cite book
last = Simpson | first = J.R.R. Marianna Shreve
year = 1997
title = Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran
publisher = Yale University Press hardback: ISBN 978-0300068023

External links

* [http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/loveYearning/base.html Explore the Freer Jami]


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