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Episode 7: Amir Khusraw
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107 minutes
Released:
Apr 12, 2024
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Professors Prashant Keshavmurthy and Shankar Nair explore the brilliant and multilingual poetry of Amir Khusraw (651-725 /1253–1325), one of the most celebrated and influential South Asian poets, known as Tuti-i Hindi, “The Parrot of India”. A court poet and an devoted disciple of the great Sufi saint, Nizam al-din Awliya’ (next to whom he is buried in Delhi), Khusraw is known for his mastery of multiple genres, flowing style and īhām (double or more-entendres), his musical ability (he is sometimes called “the father of qawwali”), and remarkable creativity. His poetry is still popularly sung today in South Asia and South […]
Released:
Apr 12, 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