Description: Originally written as an introduction, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi's Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl blends manifesto and autobiography to offer a defense of poetry and a challenge to assumptions about culture, religion, and authority. Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders presents a new English translation of this bold work alongside the Persian text.
Brief description: Alyssa Gabbay is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.