The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany

by Arthur F. J. Remy

[207] With few exceptions, pointed out by Bodenstedt himself, e.g. "Mullah rein ist der Wein" is from the Tartaric. Nachlass, p. 208.

[208] Friedr. Bodenstedts Gesammelte Schriften, Berlin, 1865, 12 vols. Vols. i and ii. All references to the Lieder des M.S. are to this edition.

[209] Nachlass, p. 193.

[210] Or else a saying of Muhammad exactly like it, cited by Prof. Brugsch in Aus dem Morgenlande, Lpz. Recl. Univ. Bibl. 3151-2, p. 57.

[211] Cf. Bodenstedt's remarks on Sūfism in Nachtrag, p. 198 seq.

[212] See my article on Religion of Ancient Persia in Progress, vol. iii. No. 5, p. 290.

[213] A complete history of Saʻdī's life, drawn from his own writings as well as other sources, is given by W. Bacher, Saʻdī's Aphorismen und Sinngedichte, Strassb. 1879. On the relation of the poet to the rulers of his time, see esp. p. xxxv seq.

[214] We cite from the third edition, 1887.

[215] Translated more closely by Bodenstedt in Die Lieder und Sprüche des Omar Chajjâm, Breslau, 1881, p. 29.

[216] Schlechta-Wssehrd, Ibn Jemins Bruchstücke. Wien, 1852, pp. 138, 139.