Poetry and Pedagogy: The Homiletic Verse of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭâr (original) (raw)

The Manifestation of Sufi Poetry in Persian Literature

Research result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 2017

A bstract The study of the emergence of the Sufi poetry in Persian literature has been of interest to all Persian historians. Sufism is a special School of thought which was formally introduced from the second century AD. The first thing that was important among them was the denial of the world and then, love for God was the ultimate goal of their deeds. Therefore, their teachings are divided into two categories: educational literature and romantic literature. Subsequently, the great heritage left behind which was nourished from this School of thought. Therefore, in this essay, the manifestation of the Sufi poetry in Persian literature will be investigated, without paying attention to the romantic poems written by non-mystical poets who mean human love for mankind, which have been whispered by the mystics in a certain way. Meanwhile, the attempt will be made to mention the masters of Persian Sufi poetry.

A Portrait of the Persian Poet

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Early Persian Verse Romances in Mutaqārib: Form, Structure, Contents

Iranian Studies

This article discusses use of the meter mutaqārib in Persian masnavī (narrative) poetry as related to its content from a comparative perspective. One of the aims is to demonstrate the various connections between a set of narrative poems composed in mutaqārib. The article questions previous assumptions about the form and style of early Persian verse romances and contributes to further discussion of approaches to Persian narrative poetry.

Persian Literature (ISLA 388), Fall 2024

Undergraduate course syllabus, 2024

This course is intended to introduce you to classic texts in English translation from the millennium of pre-19th century literature in Persian. You will read Rūmī, Firdawsī, Hāfiz and other famous poets with attention to questions salient to them and to us: how did poetry perpetuate or undercut father-son relations? Why and how did Persian (and Arabic) literatures celebrate their own origins in and as translation? How did the courtly panegyric fuse Islamic and pre-Islamic values, put moral pressure on its addressee and displace the speaker's desire? How can proverbs and wise sayings obscure life decisions rather than clarifying them? Does Rūmī's poetry need its readers to be scholars? What kinds of reading competencies do texts like his assume? Why and how do ghazals eroticize a cruelly distant beloved? How did a ghazal or masnavī relate to prior, present and future ghazals or masnavīs? What kinds of social spaces-the court, the Sufi hospice, the coffee house, the madrasa, the home-did these texts circulate in, assume and help produce? What gender ideals did they assume and prescribe? What genre logics do they obey and disobey? How did Persian literary culture understand emotion and how does this understanding differ from our own?

Persian Classical Mystical Poetics

To be published in Shmasur Rahman Faruqi and Alireza Korangy (eds), Sabk: Essays on Form, Manner, and the Stylistics of Metaphor in Persian and Indo-Persian Literatures, 2016.

An Introduction to Persian Poetry and its Milieu

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, ed. Susan Scollay. State Library of Victoria, Melbourne and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2012

Susan Scollay is an independent scholar and curator specialising in the arts and culture of the Islamic world. Widely published, she is guest co-curator of the exhibition, Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, a project that developed from her ongoing doctoral research