Persian literati explore Naser-e Khusraw’s Book of Travels
TEHRAN – Literature scholars mentioned the Safarnamah (Guide of Travels) of Abu Muin Naser-e Khusraw al-Marvazi al-Qubadiyani, recognized as Naser-e Khusraw, all through an on the net session on Tuesday.
The session was structured by the Persian literary regular Bokhara and Elmi Farhani Publications to celebrate the release of a new version of the ebook by the publisher.
The edition has been corrected by Mohammadreza Tavakkoli-Saberi, who sent a speech in the course of the session, which streamed by Instagram.com/elmifarhangipub and Instagram.com/bukharamag.
Mohammad Emadi Haeri, Bahram Parvin Gonabadi, Pajand Soleimani, Nadereh Rezai and also Ali Dehbashi gave lectures throughout the session.
Tavakkoli-Saberi is also the creator of “The Wanderer of the Yamgan Valley”, a novel he has published about the lifestyle story of Naser-e Khusraw who lived during the eleventh century.
Naser-e Khusraw‘s most-celebrated prose do the job, The Safarnameh is a diary describing his seven-year journey through Syria and Palestine. It is a worthwhile record of the scenes and occasions that he witnessed.
Tavakkoli-Saberi adopted the route in a similar journey to create his guide “The Lapsable Journey”, which was revealed by Elmi Farhangi in 2018.
Born in 1004 in Qubadiyan, Merv, Khorasan (Iran), Naser-e Khusraw came of a spouse and children of governing administration officials who belonged to the Shia branch of Islam.
In 1045, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and ongoing his journey to Palestine and then to Egypt, which was ruled at that time by the Fatimid dynasty.
The Fatimids headed the Ismaili sect, an offshoot of Shiism, and they sent missionaries to propagate their beliefs all over the Islamic world.
Naser-e Khusraw turned these a missionary, nevertheless it is not specific whether or not he turned an Ismaili in advance of his excursion to the Fatimid capital or immediately after. He returned to his homeland in what is now Afghanistan, but his vigorous advocacy of the Ismaili ideology inside Sunni territory forced him to flee to Badakhshan, wherever he spent the rest of his times, lamenting in his poetry that he was not able to be an active missionary.
His poetry is of a didactic and devotional character and consists predominantly of extensive odes that are considered to be of large literary excellent. His philosophical poetry consists of the Rawshanainameh (“Book of Light”).
He also wrote much more than a dozen treatises expounding the doctrines of the Ismailis, amongst them the Jami al-Hikmatayn (“Union of the Two Wisdoms”), in which he tried to harmonize Ismaili theology and Greek philosophy.
Naser-e Khusraw’s literary design and style is clear-cut and vigorous. In his verse, he displays good technological virtuosity, when his prose is outstanding for the richness of its philosophical vocabulary.
He died c. 1072/77 in Yamgan, Badakhshan, Central Asia, which is now in present-day Afghanistan.
Picture: Entrance protect of Naser-e Khusraw’s Safarnamah (Guide of Travels) corrected by Mohammadreza Tavakkoli-Saberi.
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