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Episode 3: Sana’i
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62 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
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Description
Professors Nicholas Boylston and Parisa Zahiremami discuss the poetry and legacy of Hakim Sana’i, the seminal Persian Sufi and court poet of the 11th-12th century. His magnum opus, Hadiqat al-Haqiqa (The Garden of Reality), had a tremendous influence on Persian poets and literature after him.
Further Reading:
Parisa Zahiremami, “Sanāʾi’s Hadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative.” Iranian Studies 54, no. 3-4 (2021): 485-519.
——, “Cosmopolitanism, Poetry, and Kingship: The Ideal Ruler in Sanāʾī’s (d. 1131 or 1135 CE) Poetry.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2022.
Boylston, Nicholas, “Writing the Kaleidoscope of Reality: The Significance of Diversity in the 6 th/12 th Century Persian Metaphysical Literature of Sanā’ī,’Ayn Al-Qudāt and’Attār.” PhD diss..Georgetown University, 2017.
Franklin Lewis, “Reading, Writing, and Recitation: Sana’i and the Origins of the Persian Ghazal” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1995.
JTP De Bruijn, Of Piety and Poetry: The Interaction of Religion and Literature in the Life and Works of Hakīm Sanā‘ī of Ghazna (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1983).
Online Collection of Sana’i’s Poetry (in Persian): https://ganjoor.net/sanaee
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: Nicholas Boylston and Parisa Zahiremami
Edited By Alana Bittner, WJTU
Further Reading:
Parisa Zahiremami, “Sanāʾi’s Hadiqat al-haqiqeh: Between Narrative and Non-narrative.” Iranian Studies 54, no. 3-4 (2021): 485-519.
——, “Cosmopolitanism, Poetry, and Kingship: The Ideal Ruler in Sanāʾī’s (d. 1131 or 1135 CE) Poetry.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2022.
Boylston, Nicholas, “Writing the Kaleidoscope of Reality: The Significance of Diversity in the 6 th/12 th Century Persian Metaphysical Literature of Sanā’ī,’Ayn Al-Qudāt and’Attār.” PhD diss..Georgetown University, 2017.
Franklin Lewis, “Reading, Writing, and Recitation: Sana’i and the Origins of the Persian Ghazal” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1995.
JTP De Bruijn, Of Piety and Poetry: The Interaction of Religion and Literature in the Life and Works of Hakīm Sanā‘ī of Ghazna (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1983).
Online Collection of Sana’i’s Poetry (in Persian): https://ganjoor.net/sanaee
Host: Oludamini Ogunnaike
Guests: Nicholas Boylston and Parisa Zahiremami
Edited By Alana Bittner, WJTU
Released:
Mar 11, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (8)
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