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SUMMARY:The Art of Celebrating: Life at the court as represented in Ghazna
 vid and Saljuq Court Poetry - Dr Gabrielle van den Berg (Universiteit Leid
 en)
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CONTACT:Maryam Serajiantehrani
DESCRIPTION:The first substantial amount of classical Persian poetry dates
  from  the 11th century. A large part of the poetry that has come down to 
 us has been composed for the Ghaznavid and Saljuq dynasties (11th-12th cen
 tury)\, who ruled semi-independently over large territories of the eastern
  caliphate\, in Khurasan and Central Asia. The poetry of this period has b
 een of vital importance for the development of a flourishing poetical trad
 ition in the centuries to follow. I would like to focus in the lecture on 
 the representations of court life in Ghaznavid and Saljuq court poetry\,  
 in particular on the ways Islamic and pre-Islamic feasts come to the fore 
 in Ghaznavid and Saljuq poetry. 
LOCATION:Room 8+9\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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