Allegorical poem · 1856
Salaman and Absal
An Allegory
Translated by Edward FitzGerald (1856)
Jami's allegory of a king of Greece whose son Salaman, nursed and then seduced by the beautiful Absal, flees with her, is saved from a funeral pyre, and is finally freed from earthly love by the heavenly Venus, with the closing section explaining the story as the soul's journey.
Contents · 30 parts
- I. Prologue76 lines
- II.62 lines
- III.57 lines
- IV. The Story34 lines
- V.79 lines
- VI.59 lines
- VII.47 lines
- VIII.58 lines
- IX.36 lines
- X.51 lines
- XI.28 lines
- XII.42 lines
- XIII.18 lines
- XIV.36 lines
- XV.13 lines
- XVI.41 lines
- XVII.16 lines
- XVIII.40 lines
- XIX.81 lines
- XX.43 lines
- XXI.39 lines
- XXII.31 lines
- XXIII.23 lines
- XXIV.56 lines
- XXV.21 lines
- XXVI.38 lines
- XXVII.26 lines
- XXVIII.52 lines
- XXIX. Epilogue16 lines
- XXX.68 lines