The idea that some poets in eighteenth and nineteenth century Iran revived Persian poetry by returning to the styles of the classical masters, while poets outside of Iran did not, has left a deep impression on how Persian literary history has come to be written. This idea, known…
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This thesis uses Umberto Eco's concept of the Model Reader in order to analyze the textual strategies that Rumi's Masnavi utilizes to develop its ideal reader. Specifically it analyzes four strategically placed love stories in the Masnavi that come at the beginning, middle, and …
The proposed project is motivated by the outstanding need for an accessible English translation of Yik Kalima (One Word), written in Persian and Arabic in 1875 by Mīrzā Yusef Khān Tabryzy (1813-1895). The book's main argument is a proposal for a revolutionary aim in modernizing …
In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India is a historical study of the discursive practices by which Zoroastrians struggled to define their communal identity through constructions of the central …
In the first half of the eleventh century CE, a series of narrative poems about love and lovers were composed in the eastern Iranian lands, marking the advent of what is now generally called the romance genre in Persian literature. However, sustained theoretical considerations o…
This study seeks to explore textual representations of Alexander the Great in Arabic and Persian literature of the first six Islamic centuries. It is particularly concerned with the symbolic connection Muslim writers in this time drew between Alexander and the religious and poli…