Love and Existence: Analytical Study of Ahmadi Kahni's Tragedy of Mem û Zin
Publisher: Khani Academy, Authorhouse UK.
Published: September 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback; Hardcover
Number of pages: 660
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface; title: BOOK I; title: GENERAL INTRODUCTION & PROLOGUES; title: PART I   KHANI AND MEM Û ZÎN; title: Chapter 1: Khani’s life and work; title: Khani’s life and work; title: Chyet’s study of Mem û Zîn versions; title: Chapter 2	 Izzedin Mustafa Rasul on Khani: Ahmadi Khani as a  poet, thinker, philosopher and Sufist.; title: Chapter 3	Mem û Zîn’s publication and editions; title: Chapter 4  The form and genre of Khani’s literary work; title: The genre and form of Mem û Zîn; title: Comparison between Firdowsi and Khani; title: Mem û Zîn  and Chyet’s  epic criteria; title: Masnawi and Kurdish literature; title: PART II  AHMADI KHANI’S PROLOGUES; title: Chapter 1: Khani’s theory of Kurdish nationalism; title: Chapter 2: Khani on Mem û Zîn; title: PART III MEM Û ZÎN AS A TRAGIC DRAMA; title: Chapter 1: On definition of a literary genre; title: Chapter 2: Aristotle’s theory of tragedy; title: Chapter 3: Defining Khani’s Mem û Zîn as a unique genre of tragedy; title: BOOK TWO; title: ANALYTICAL READING OF MEM Û ZÎN AS A TRAGIC DRAMA; title: PART I LOVE AND BEAUTY; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1   The dramatic structure of Mem û Zîn (as a play); title: Chapter 2   Analytical reading of Mem û Zîn as tragedy; title: Act I 	Newroz, beauty and love; title: Prologue; title: Introductory characterization; title: Introducing initial themes; title: Mem and Tazhdin; title: Khani on the Principles of Necessity and Probability; title: Scene 1	Formal celebration of Newroz and; title: Newroz filomania; title: Scene 2	Mem and Tazhdin after the Newroz saga; title: Scene 3	Zîn and Stê after the Newroz saga; title: Scene 4	Nanny’s visit to fortune-teller; title: Scene 5	Tazhdin and Stê’s engagement party; title: Scene 6	Royal wedding; title: Scene 7	Tazdin’s and Stê’s haram and love-making; title: Part II  Love and Evil; title: ACT 11   The philosophy and politics of evil; title: Prologue: The position of contradictions in the schema of universe; title: Evil as a necessary element of universe’s system of antitheses; title: Khani’s introduction of Bekir Mergewer as the fact of evil; title: Scene 1	The political necessity of evil. The Mir’s pragmatic Machiavellianism; title: The development of the dramatic plot of Mem û Zîn as tragedy; title: Scene 2	Bekir’s malicious backbiting against Mem and Tazhdin; title: Reflection on the nature of princes; title: Transcending physical love; title: Constructing the dramatic plot of the tragedy; title: Sufism as the backdrop of spiritual love; title: Scene 3	Love and loneliness of Mem after separation from soul mates; title: Portrait of Mem as a lonely lover; title: Scene 4       Zîn’s loneliness and suffering; title: Strategy of Soliloquy: Dramatic monologues for capturing existential and Sufist experiences; title: Khani’s strategic dramatic constructions and aims; title: Well-balanced plot: Mem û Zîn’s rendezvous; title: Factor of evil in determining the events; title: Khani’s soliloquies in Mem û Zîn; title: Scene 5	First dramatic monologues of Zîn and Mem; title: Zîn’s ode to her sadness; title: Zîn’s ode to her absent sister Stê; title: Zîn’s ode to the butterfly; title: Khani’s rationale for the above consecutive soliloquies; title: Scene 6      The initial soliloquies of Mem; title: Mem’s ode to the Tigris River; title: Mem’s ode to the Wind; title: Mem’s ode to his heart; title: Scene 7	 Supernatural event; title: Chapter 5	Towards climax: Dramatic events and fateful meetings; title: Act III  Love and Destiny; title: Back to the real world; title: Prologue:  Storyteller on the season and custom of hunting in Kurdistan; title: Scene 1	The Mîr orders the start of national day of hunting; title: Description of the Mîr’s Gardens; title: Time for the lovers’ rendezvous; title: Scene 2	 Zîn’s ode to her heart and her walk to the gardens; title: Zîn in the gardens of paradise; title: Zîn’s ode to the Yellow Rose; title: Rendezvous in paradise; title: Scene 3	The meeting of Mem and Zîn, their shock and intoxication.; title: Adam and Eve in paradise again: Will they or they not taste the apple?; title: Chapter 6	Acceleration of dramatic events; title: Scene 4	The return of the Mir and hunters, Mem’s discovery and Mir and Mem’s conversation in the palace; title: Scene 5	The big bonfire of friendship and salvation; title: Act IV	Love and truth: To know or not to know, that is the question!; title: Scene 1	People talk of Mem û Zîn’s love; title: Scene 2	Bekir meets the Mir and plots against Mem; title: Khani’s reflection on political rulers; title: Khani’s reflection on political rulers; title: Scene 3 	The game of truth: Love-chess-death game; title: Khani introduces a new character; title: Reading the chess game; title: Bekir Mergewer’s tactic to turn the tide of history; title: Scene 4 	Mem in prison and his prison soliloquy; title: Khani’s new group of Sufist soliloquies; title: Mem’s ode to Zîn; title: Scene 5 	Zîn’s pain and her dramatic monologues; title: Zîn’s ode to the Fortune; title: Zîn’s ode to Mem after his imprisonment; title: Act V  Love, justice and power; title: Prologue: Love becomes a public issue; title: Tazhdin and Stê relive the experience of their love story; title: Scene 1 	Arif presents idea and plan of popular armed revolution; title: Solution is revolution: Dawn of rebellion; title: Scene 2 	Tazhdin and his armed men attack the Mir’s palace, Tazhdin sends and envoy to the Mir. Bekir draws a new plan to save the situation; title: Scene 3 	Bekir’s new plan to kill Mem and Zîn; title: Climax and reversal: evil, remorse, tears, and death; title: The character of the prince; title: The Mîr is reflective and distressed; title: Khani’s reflection on the nature of princes; title: Scene 4	The fall of the tragic hero: the climactical meeting of the Mîr and his sister Zîn; title: Climax, Realization and Reversal; title: Scene 5	The life and death of Zîn and Mem: Zîn explains her Sufist journey and makes her will; title: Zîn explains her spiritual union with Mem; title: Mem’s spiritual experience of death; title: Zîn tells her brother about her Will; title: The super-texts of the Will speech; title: Scene 6	Zîn visits Mem in prison; title: Stê and the Nanny speak to Mem; title: Zîn resurrects Mem; title: Mem’s refusal to meet the Mîr: Sufist concept of worldly power; title: Mem’s death; title: ACT VI  Mourning, Revenge and Eternal love; title: Prologue:  Death, murder and mourning; title: Scene 1	Mourning for Mem; Tazhdin kills Bekir amnd mourns Mem; title: Scene 2 	Zîn knows of Bekir’s death and defends his evil actions; title: Resolution of the conflict between good and evil; title: Scene 3: The burial of Mem; Zîn laments Mem; title: Zîn dies while embracing Mem’s tomb; title: Scene 4  	Two green trees and a thorn-bush grow on Mem û Zîn’s grave; title: Khani on the nature of evil; title: Khani’s Epilogues: News from the afterworld and final reflections; title: Khani summarises his Sufist approach to life and love, to good and evil; title: Khani reflects on his work; title: Khani explains the language, dialects and material of his work; title: Khani establishes love (‘Ishq) as the supreme theme of his story; title: Khani talks of elements of existence; title: PART FOUR CONCLUSIONS; title: Coceptual unity of Khani’s work; title: Thematic unity of Khani’s work; title: Deep structure level of meanings; title: “Disguise episode”; title: “Zîn’s Will Speech episode”; title: Dramatic unity of Mem û Zîn; title: Setting; title: Atmosphere; title: Language and style; title: Aristotlian dramatic structure; title: Mem û Zîn’s modernity; title: Bibliography