Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry write by Leonard Lewisohn. This book was released on 2010-06-02. Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry
Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry write by Leonard Lewisohn. This book was released on 2010-06-02. Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The romantic lyricism of the great Persian poet Hafiz (1315-1390) continues to be admired around the world. Recent exploration of that lyricism by Iranian scholars has revealed that, in addition to his masterful use of poetic devices, Hafiz's verse is deeply steeped in the philosophy and symbolism of Persian love mysticism. This innovative volume discusses the aesthetic theories and mystical philosophy of the classical Persian love-lyric (ghazal) as particularly exemplified by Hafiz (who, along with Rumi and Sa'di, is Persia's most celebrated poet). For the first time in western literature, Hafiz's rhetoric of romance is situated within the broader context of what scholars refer to as 'Love Theory' in Arabic and Persian poetry in particular and Islamic literature more generally. Contributors from both the West and Iran conduct a major investigation of the love lyrics of Hafiz and of what they signified to that high culture and civilization which was devoted to the School of Love in medieval Persia. The volume will have strong appeal to scholars of the Middle East, medieval Islamic literature, and the history and culture of Iran.
Archaeology of Babel
Archaeology of Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archaeology of Babel write by Siraj Ahmed. This book was released on 2017-12-12. Archaeology of Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always enjoyed within the modern humanities silently reinforces a colonial hierarchy. In fact, each of philology's foundational innovations originally served British rule in India. Tracing an unacknowledged history that extends from British Orientalist Sir William Jones to Palestinian American intellectual Edward Said and beyond, Archaeology of Babel excavates the epistemic transformation that was engendered on a global scale by the colonial reconstruction of native languages, literatures, and law. In the process, it reveals the extent to which even postcolonial studies and European philosophy—not to mention discourses as disparate as Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu nationalism, and global environmentalism—are the progeny of colonial rule. Going further, it unearths the alternate concepts of language and literature that were lost along the way and issues its own call for humanists to reckon with the politics of the philological practices to which they now return.
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Say What Your Longing Heart Desires write by Niloofar Haeri. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned questions of what it means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public debate, taken up widely outside the exclusive realm of male clerics and intellectuals. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires offers an elegant ethnography of these debates among a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, Haeri illuminates the ways in which believers draw on prayer and ritual acts as the emotional and intellectual material through which they think, deliberate, and debate.
Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature
Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature write by Kamran Talattof. This book was released on 2023-06-06. Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical and Late Classical Persian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Ancient, Classical, and Late Classical Persian Literature contains scholarly essays and sample texts related to Persian literature from 650 BCE through the 16th century CE. It includes analyses of some seminal ancient texts and the works of numerous authors of the classical period. The chapters apply a disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to the many movements, genres, and works of the long and evolving body of Persian literature produced in the Persianate World. These collections of scholarly essays and samples of Persian literary texts provide facts (general information), instructions (ways to understand, analyze, and appreciate this body of works), and the field’s state-of-the-art research (the problematics of the topics) regarding one of the most important and oldest literary traditions in the world. Thus, the Handbook’s chapters and related texts provide scholars, students, and admirers of Persian poetry and prose with practical and direct access to the intricacies of the Persian literary world through a chronological account of key moments in the formation of this enduring literary tradition. The related Handbook (also edited by Kamran Talattof ), Routledge Handbook of Post Classical and Contemporary Persian Literature, covers Persian literary works from the 17th century to the present.
