Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 74 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 74: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is running prose from a biographical notice about the Persian poet Jámi. The page recounts how Jámi encouraged his nephew Maulána Abdullah to pursue poetry, beginning with an imitation of Firdusi's work, and subsequently wrote the opening couplet of his celebrated poem *Laila and Majnun*. The text goes on to enumerate Jámi's literary output, citing Rosenzweig's count of forty-four works and Shir Khán Lúdi's claim (via Ouseley) that he authored ninety-nine volumes of grammar, poetry, and theology admired throughout the Eastern world.
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\ i > “ ee —— remembered by his Father in the Preface to his Khiradnama-i Iskander—Alexander’s Wisdom-book —which perhaps had also been begun for the Boy’s Instruction. He had lhkewise a nephew, one Maulana Abdullah, who was ambitious of following his Uncle’s Footsteps in Poetry. Jami first dissuaded him; then, by way of trial whether he had a Talent as well as a Taste, bade him imitate Firdusi’s Satire on Shah Mahmud. The Nephew did so well, that Jami then encouraged him to proceed ; himself wrote the first Conplet of his First (and most celebrated ) Poem— Laila and Majnun— This Book of which the Pen has now laid the Foundation, May the diploma of Acceptance one day befall it,— and Abdullah went on to write that and four other Poems which Persia continues to delight in to the present day, remembering their Author under his Takhallus of Hiriri—“ The Voice from Heaven ”— and Last of the classic Poets of Persia. Of Jami’s literary Offspring, Rosenzweig numbers forty-four. But Shir Khan Lidi in his ‘ Memoirs of the Poets,” says Ouseley, accounts him Author of Ninety-rine Volumes of Grammar, Poetry, and Theology, which, he says, “‘ continue to be universally admired in all parts of the Hastern World, Iran, Turan, and Hindustan ”—copied some of them into g 48 NOTICE OF JAm{’s cre. | | | | | | | —— sss - - | CORNICLOO KS (