Attar
Khusraw-nama (Gol and Hormoz)
Traditional attribution
Khusraw-nama (Gol and Hormoz)
خسرونامه / گل و هرمز (Khusraw-nama o Gol o Hormoz)
A courtly, not mystical, romance about the love of Gol, daughter of the king of Ahvaz, and Hormoz, illegitimate son of the Byzantine Caesar, raised in secret in the house of the royal gardener. After a tale of adventures, renunciations and discoveries, the lovers marry. The preface claims to versify a prose work by one Badr Ahvazi, and the episodes seem to grow from local legends. Its similarities with Nezami's *Khosrow and Shirin* are not enough to prove dependence.
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Authorship note
Disputed authorship. Reinert (1987) considered it authentic, in two versions by Attar himself. Mohammad Reza Shafi'i-Kadkani (1996, 1999) argued that it is a later forgery and that the *Khusraw-nama* Attar mentions is the *Ilahi-nama*; Landolt (2006) regards the thesis as proven. Austin O'Malley (2019) has challenged it with a manuscript of 1297 (BnF) that already contains the romance and its preface under Attar's name. Others assign it to an Attar of Mianeh.
Editions and translations
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Attar
Khusraw-nama
The Conscious LibraryKhusraw-nama
Teherán, 1961
Translation: Ahmad Soheyli Khwansari (ed.)
No distingue las dos versiones que señalaba Ritter.
Other works by Attar
- Mantiq al-tayr (The Conference of the Birds) · 1177
- Ilahi-nama (The Book of God)
- Musibat-nama (The Book of Affliction)
- Asrar-nama (The Book of Secrets)
- Tadhkirat al-awliya (Memorial of God's Friends)
- Divan
- Mukhtar-nama (The Book of Selections)
- Mi'raj-nama (Book of the Ascension)
- Jumjuma-nama (Book of the Skull)
- Jawahir-nama (Book of Jewels)
- Sharh al-qalb (Commentary on the Heart)
- Kashf al-asrar and Ma'rifat al-nafs
- Pand-nama (Book of Counsel)
- Bulbul-nama (Book of the Nightingale)
- Jawhar al-dhat (The Essence of Essence)
- Ushtur-nama (Book of the Camel)
- Haylaj-nama
- Mansur-nama
- Bisar-nama (Book of the Headless)
- Mazhar al-aja'ib (Manifestation of Wonders)
- Lisan al-ghayb (The Tongue of the Unseen)
- Waslat-nama (Book of Union)
- Khayyat-nama (Book of the Tailor)
- Kanz al-asrar (The Treasure of Secrets)
- Miftah al-futuh (The Key of Openings)
- Wasiyat-nama (Book of the Testament)
- Kanz al-haqa'iq (The Treasure of Truths)
- Other ascribed works (Si fasl, Bayan al-irshad, Nuzhat al-ahbab, Mazhar al-dhat)
Sources
- O'Malley, Austin. «An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma». Al-'Usur al-Wusta 27 (2019), pp. 201–232. DOI 10.7916/alusur.v27i1.6785.
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