Persian poetry

This research examined how Rumi's poetry impacts the lives of individuals who study his teachings, written 800 years ago in his masterpiece, Mathnawi. After teaching Rumi for the last15 years, I was aware of positive changes in my students' lives but wanted a more in-depth under…

This theoretical study encompasses a theory of authentic self-love as a healing phenomenon in relational, systemic psychotherapy, utilizing selected psychological, philosophical, theological and aesthetic interdisciplinary literature, texts ranging from 2,000 BCE to the present,…

A particular--Persian--trajectory for the configurations of a certain German orientation and identity-formation from the late Baroque Rococo, past Classicist Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang , and German Romantics is disserted using Goethe's theory of poetic translation as derived…

This dissertation delineates the intersections of transgression, law, inclusion and exclusion, self and Other, in Farid al-Din Attar Nishapuri's (1145-1221) treatment of class, gender, sexuality, and religion. I examine four sets of love stories that Attar used in his writings t…