The Story of Joseph: Kyssa'i Yusuf - Rilegato

Gali, Kol

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1906876053 ISBN 13: 9781906876050

Casa editrice: Global Oriental, 2010

Riassunto

For Generations learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region, Kyssa'i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by Kol Gali (1183-1236), widely considered the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature, here rendered in its entirety into English for the first time by Fred Beake and Ravil Bukharaev.

Supporting the translation are background essays on Volga-Bulgaria and the Kazan Tatars, Kol Gali and his Poem, Religion in the Joseph story and the significance of Kyssa'i Yusuf for the Islamic world, as well as the approach taken in creating the English translation. In addition. Azat Minnekaev, one of Russia's leading contemporary artists, has produced over forty specially commissioned illustrations to help bring the Joseph story to life.

The volume also contains a complete set of faesimiles of the early nineteenth-century manuscript of Kyssa'i Yusuf, which has been used for this translation, now in the safekeeping of Tatarstan's National Library in Kazan.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ravil Bukharaev is a well-known writer, poet, radio journalist and scholar of religious, cultural and political history of his native Tatarstan. He was born in Kazan in 1951. He is the author of more than thirty books, among which are The Model of Tatarstan Under President Mintimer Shaimiev (London/New York, 1999), Islam in Russia: the Four Seasons (London/New York, 2000). In 2005, he was awarded the M. Lomonosov Gold Medal for his contribution to Russian Arts, Science and Education and, in 2006, the State Prize of Tatarstan for his latest books of poetry. He has lived in London, UK, since 1992.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Global Oriental
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1906876053
• ISBN 13: 9781906876050
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 229
• Disegnatore: Minnekaev Azat