Make a Shield from Wisdom
Subtitle: Selected Verses from Nasir-l Khusraw's Divan (Islamic Texts and Contexts)
Contributors: Annemarie Schimmel (Editor)
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Published: November 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780710304551
Subjects: Islamic studies; Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian Languages; Middle Eastern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern
First sentence: Persian poetry began to bloom in the tenth century after the literati of Iran had expressed themselves during the first centuries after the Muslim conquest (that is, after 651) in Arabic, the language of the Qur'an and of learning.