Nizami Aruzi

Nizami Aruzi

Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Alī, known as Nizamī-i Arūzī-i Samarqandī (Persian: نظامی عروضی) and also Arudi ("The Prosodist"), was a Persian poet and prose writer who flourished between 1110 and 1161 AD. He is particularly famous for his Chahar Maqala ("Four Discourses"), his only work to fully survive.

Born in Samarqand, Aruzi spent most of his time in Khorasan and Transoxiana.[1] He served as essentially a court-poet to the Ghaznavids for many years, and is considered one of the greatest of the Persian prose writers, though his poetry is considered inferior to his prose. All that is known of his personal life is gleaned from the Chahar Maqala itself.[2] While he was primarily a courtier, he also noted in his book that he was an astronomer and physician as well.[3] He reports in the work that he spent time not only in his native Samarqand, but also in Herat, Tus (where he visited Ferdowsi's tomb and gathered material on the great poet) Balkh, and Nishapur, where he lived for perhaps five years.[4] He also claimed to have studied under the astronomer-poet Omar Khayyám, a native of Nishapour.[5]

In the Introduction to the Chahar Maqala, Nizami Aruzi elaborates on issues of natural science, epistemology and politics. He is a champion of the ancient Persian concept of kingship which, for the sake of legitimation, is expressed in Muslim vocabulary. His elaboration on the classes of society is influenced by Persian as well as Greek conceptions, especially Plato.[6]

The Chahar Maqala has been rendered into English, French, Italian and Swedish.

See also

References

  1. ^ Nizami Aruzi, A Revised Translation of the Chahár maqála ("Four discourses") of Nizámí-i'Arúdí of Samarqand, followed by an abridged translation of Mírzá Muhammad's notes to the Persian text, Edward Brown, ed. (London: for Cambridge University Press, 1921), x.
  2. ^ Edward Granville Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 4 vols. (New York: Charles, Scribner and Sons, 1902-1906), vol. 2, p. 337.
  3. ^ Nizami Aruzi, A Revised Translation of the Chahár maqála ("Four discourses"), xi, 74, 96.
  4. ^ See the entry for ČAHĀR MAQĀLA in Encyclopedia Iranica, available online at http://www.iranica.com/newsite/
  5. ^ Browne, Literary History of Persia, Vol. 2, p. 337.
  6. ^ Ashk Dahlén, Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi ʽAruzi, Orientalia Suecana, vol. 58, Uppsala, 2009.

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