Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Riccardo Paredi ( Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano/ NYU Abu Dhabi), Editing Early Sufism: From Manuscript Discovery to Digital Corpus . Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Mahindra Humanities...

Arjun Nair (University of Southern California), Keys to the Meanings: Reading the Poetry of Shīrīn Maghribī in Light of His Prose.

Cyrus Zargar (University of Central Florida), The Real in the Ruins: ʿAttār’s Poetry as a Response to Islamic Intellectual History. Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies.

Cameron Cross (University of Michigan), Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages. Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar.

Austin O’Malley (University of Chicago), The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism.

Parwana Fayyaz (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge), Modern Heroines: Women in Classical Persian Literature. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. This lecture focuses on the female characters who are at the...

Nasrin Askari (University of Birmingham), An Intimate Companion from a Twelfth-Century Royal Court of Azerbaijan: The Mūnis-nāma and Its Audience. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. What do “folk” tales have in...

Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University), Lyric Mimesis: Vaṣf and its Objects in Early New Persian Verse. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Theodore Beers (Freie Universität Berlin), From Arabic to Persian and Halfway Back Again: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. The adaptation of Kalīla and Dimna written by Abū...

Nicholas Boylston (Seattle University), The Secrets of Sanā’ī’s Gathering: A Poem from the Khurasani Majāles-e Va‘ẓ (Sessions of Sermonizing) as a Window onto Twelfth-Century Persian Metaphysical Literature. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern...