ISLA 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cosmology In Medieval Islam, Zoroastrianism, Persian Language

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 200
• Professor: Malek Abisaab

Document Summary

Royal justice circulation of wealth, securing the kingdom, Facets of pleasure (sexuality, wine, hunting) and royal justice are interlinked (bharam gur), hunting can be related to war. In the shahnameh the only acceptable way to get wealth is through war, by yourself. Gulistan wealth is knowledge understood as practical skills (as useless to have money and not to spend it as it is to have knowledge and not to act)(wealth must be in circulation). Ferdowsi has an ambiguous relationship with arab conquests. In gulistan arabic is used a lot because it is the language of knowledge, educated ppl and religion. In gulistan focus on apposite (when to speak, what to say based on context, contextual aspects of conversing). Shahnameh focus on the power of speech (destruction of village). Aim of education in the gulistan is to acquire practical skills. High focus on natural disposition to get educated. Gulistan is in the genre of akhlaq (worldly ethics).