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Episode 4: Ibn al-Farid
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95 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
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Description
Professors James Morris and Arjun Nair discuss the poetry of the “Sultan of Lovers,” ‘Umar ibn al-Farid, the 7th/13th-century Egyptian poet whose qasidas (odes) are widely considered to be among the best ever composed in the Arabic language.
Links and Further Reading/Listening:
Ibn al-Farid – The Sufi Poet of Love & Oneness, Let’s Talk Religion
T. Emil Homerin, ʻUmar Ibn Al-Fāriḍ: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life (New York: Paulist Press, 2001).
——, Passion Before me, My Fate Behind: Ibn al-Fāriḍ and the Poetry of Recollection, (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011).
——, “ ‘On the Battleground’: Al-Nābulusī’s Encounters with a Poem by Ibn al-Fāriḍ.” Journal of Arabic Literature (2007): 352-410.
——, The Wine of Love and Life: Ibn Al-Farid’s Al-Khamriyah and Al-Qaysari’s Quest for Meaning (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2005)
Arberry, A.J., The Mystical Poems of Ibn al-Farid (Dublin: The Chester Beatty Monographs, 1956).
Nair, Arjun, “Compacts, Pacts, and Covenants in Saʿīd al-Dīn Farghānī’s Commentary on Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Naẓm al-sulūk.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 73 (2023).
——, “Poetry and Sufi Commentary: A Case of/for Religious Reading in Premodern Sufism.” Journal of Islamic Studies (2023)..
Links to performances of Ibn al-Farid’s Poetry: https://sites.harvard.edu/sulaymanibnqiddees/tag/ibn-al-farid/
Online Collection of Poems Attributed to Ibn al-Farid (in Arabic): https://www.aldiwan.net/cat-poet-bin-alfard
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: James Morris and Arjun Nair
Edited By: Alana Bittner, WJTU
Links and Further Reading/Listening:
Ibn al-Farid – The Sufi Poet of Love & Oneness, Let’s Talk Religion
T. Emil Homerin, ʻUmar Ibn Al-Fāriḍ: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life (New York: Paulist Press, 2001).
——, Passion Before me, My Fate Behind: Ibn al-Fāriḍ and the Poetry of Recollection, (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2011).
——, “ ‘On the Battleground’: Al-Nābulusī’s Encounters with a Poem by Ibn al-Fāriḍ.” Journal of Arabic Literature (2007): 352-410.
——, The Wine of Love and Life: Ibn Al-Farid’s Al-Khamriyah and Al-Qaysari’s Quest for Meaning (Chicago: Middle East Documentation Center, 2005)
Arberry, A.J., The Mystical Poems of Ibn al-Farid (Dublin: The Chester Beatty Monographs, 1956).
Nair, Arjun, “Compacts, Pacts, and Covenants in Saʿīd al-Dīn Farghānī’s Commentary on Ibn al-Fāriḍ’s Naẓm al-sulūk.” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society 73 (2023).
——, “Poetry and Sufi Commentary: A Case of/for Religious Reading in Premodern Sufism.” Journal of Islamic Studies (2023)..
Links to performances of Ibn al-Farid’s Poetry: https://sites.harvard.edu/sulaymanibnqiddees/tag/ibn-al-farid/
Online Collection of Poems Attributed to Ibn al-Farid (in Arabic): https://www.aldiwan.net/cat-poet-bin-alfard
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: James Morris and Arjun Nair
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