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Episode 5: Sa’di
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65 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
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Description
Professors Fatemeh Keshavarz and Cyrus Zargar explore the poetry of Sa‘di, the traveling poet of 7th/13th-century Shiraz known for his fluid and natural style, wit, and wisdom. His Bustan and Gulistan are considered masterpieces of Persian composition and were widely-studied from the Balkans to Bengal, influencing later Persian as well as European authors.
Links and Further Reading/Listening:
Thackston, W.M. The Gulistan (Rose Garden) is Sa’di: A Bilingual English and Persian Edition (Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2008).
Keshavarz, Fatemeh. Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
Zargar, Cyrus, The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017).
Ingenito, Domenico, Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Boston: Brill, 2020)
Online Collection of Sa‘di’s Poetry (in Persian): https://ganjoor.net/saadi
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Cyrus Zargar
Edited By: Alana Bittner, WJTU
Links and Further Reading/Listening:
Thackston, W.M. The Gulistan (Rose Garden) is Sa’di: A Bilingual English and Persian Edition (Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2008).
Keshavarz, Fatemeh. Lyrics of Life: Sa’di on Love, Cosmopolitanism and Care of the Self (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
Zargar, Cyrus, The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2017).
Ingenito, Domenico, Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Boston: Brill, 2020)
Online Collection of Sa‘di’s Poetry (in Persian): https://ganjoor.net/saadi
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Cyrus Zargar
Edited By: Alana Bittner, WJTU
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (9)
Episode 1: Rumi: Professors Fatemeh Keshavarz and James Morris explore the poetry of Rumi, a famous Islamic scholar and Sufi master whose profound Persian poetry was widely-revered and recited from the Balkans to Western China, and recently became very popular in the United States as well. He is best known for his masterpieces, the Masnavi-i Ma‘navi (The Spiritual Couplets), a six-volume poetic work of around 25,000 verses, dubbed “the Qur’an in Persian,” and the Divan-i Shams, a collection of over 3,000 ecstatic ghazals. Links and Further Reading/Listening: Prof. Keshavarz’s Radio Rumi Podcast Mawlana Rumi Review “Rumi – The Most Famous Sufi Poet in the World” Let’s Talk Religion “In OurTime: Rumi’s Poetry” BBC Podcast “Rumi: Life, Works, and Legacy of a Muslim Poet” Abbasid History Podcast Masnavi.net (Full text of the Masnavi (complete Persian text (edited by Madhî Azâr Yazdî), English translation by Nicholson): http://www.masnavi.net/ https://www.dar by Logic of the Birds