{"product_id":"love-and-devotion-from-persia-and-beyond-9781851242788","title":"Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003eYusuf and Zulaykha. Khusrau and Shirin. Layla and Majnun. For hundreds of years  Persian poets have captivated audiences with recitations and reinterpretations of timeless tales of earthly and spiritual love. These tales were treasured not only in Iran  but also across the neighboring Mughal and Ottoman Empires. In Love and Devotion  leading specialists in literature  art history  and philosophy reveal new perspectives on these evocative stories and the exquisite illustrated manuscripts that convey them. Particularly in courtly settings  poetry was a key component of Persian cultural life from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century  and elite patrons commissioned copies of lyrical poems and epics told in verse. Beautifully presented here in full-page reproductions are more than one hundred folios from these illustrated manuscripts  representing masterful works from Hafiz  Rumi  and many others. Echoes of works by Persian poets are manifest across European literature from Dante and Shakespeare to the present  and this lavishly illustrated book reveals new perspectives on the universal theme of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648257351733,"sku":"ByrdShop_1851242783","price":153.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781851242788.jpg?v=1781714172","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/love-and-devotion-from-persia-and-beyond-9781851242788","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}