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The Persian Whitman
Beyond a Literary Reception
2019 || Paperback || Behnam M. Fomeshi || Leiden University Press
Walt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been read by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has remained unexplored. Additionally, Iranian reception of Western literature is a field still in its infancy and under-researched, particularly due to con...
The Ruby in the Dust / druk 1
poetry and history of the Indian Padmâvat by Sufi Poet Muhammad Jâyasî
2011 || Paperback || T. de Bruijn || Leiden University Press
The Padmavat (1540 CE) by the Indian Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi is a classic of pre-modern Indian literature. It relates how the Rajput king Ratansen of Chitor finds and marries the beautiful princess Padmavati, and how the sultan Alauddin Khilji, on hearing of her beauty, besieges Chitor in a fruitless attempt to capture her.
'The Ruby in the Dust' presents a reading of Padmavat that challenges existing interpretations of Jayasis work and describes how its semantic polyphony reflects t...
Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses
Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture
2021 || Paperback || M. Mehdi Khorrami e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
By bringing sensory studies to the study of Persian literature and culture, 'Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture' inaugurates a new chapter for Iranian and Persian studies. This volume offers a diverse set of readings across periods, genres and forms throughout Persian literary history, demonstrating the value of sensory studies as an approach to Persian cultural production, literary or otherwise. The book’s chapters conceptualize senso...
Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation
forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath
|| Paperback || Leila Rahimi Bahmany || Leiden University Press
Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately...
Irreverent Persia
invective, satirical and burlesque poetry from the origins to the timurid period (10th to 15th century)
2015 || Paperback || Riccardo Zipoli || Leiden University Press
Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major a...
Principles for Progress
Essays on Religion and Modernity by Abdu’l-Bahā
2018 || Paperback || Sen McGlinn || Leiden University Press
This book presents three of the works of Abduʾl-Bahā, son of the founder of the Bahāʾi Faith, dealing with social and political issues.
In ‘The Secret of Divine Civilization’ (1875) Abduʾl-Bahā supports the administrative and broader social reforms of Mirzā Hosayn Khān, but looks mainly for organic reform through the efforts of Iranian intellectuals to waken and educate the masses. In this work, Abduʾl-Bahā gives virtuous and progressive Islamic clerics a leading role among th...