Prompt: Discuss the relationship between spirituality, gender, and sexuality in the context of medieval Persian literature.
Deadline: Tuesday, June 7, 11:59 pm.
Length: 1500 words
Sources: all primary and secondary sources assigned after week 5, as well as five key sources assigned between weeks 1 and 5.
These are the sources I must include in developing my argument:
Klein, Yaron. Music, Rapture and Pragmatics: Ghaz?l? on Sam?? and Wajd. In No Tapping around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.S 70th Birthday, edited by Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014: 215-42.
Rowson, Everett K. The Effeminates of Early Medina. Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 111, no. 4, 1991, pp. 67193. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/603399. Accessed 30 May 2022.
Myrne, Pernilla. Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World?: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature / Pernilla Myrne. I.B. Tauris, 2020.
Herdt, Gilbert H. Coming of Age and Coming Out Ceremonies Across Cultures, Same Sex, Different Cultures?: Exploring Gay and Lesbian Lives, Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997, pp. 4054, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429497469.
Voll, John O. and Kazuo Ohtsuka. Sufism. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. 30-May-2022. http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0759.
Leoni, Stefano A
. E. . Sam??. In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. Oxford Islamic Studies Online. 30-May-2022. http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0702.
?At?t?a?r, Fari?d al-Di?n, et al. The Conference of the Birds / Farid Ud-Din Attar?; Translated with an Introduction by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Penguin Books, 1984.
Bruijn, J. T. P. de. Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Persian Poems. Taylor and Francis, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315026237.
Ingenito, Domenico. Sa?d? and the senses, In Sensory History of the Islamic World: A Primary Source Reader, edited by Christian Lange, Brill, forthcoming [2023]
Leyli o Majnun (Encyclopedia):
Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. LEYLI O MAJNUN. RSS,
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/leyli-o-majnun-narrative-poem#:~:text=LEYLI%20O%20MAJ
NUN%2C%20a%20narrative,The%20origin%20of%20the%20story.
Leyli and Majnun (Story):
Ganjav? Ni??m?, and Dick Davis. Layli and Majnun. Penguin Books, 2021.
Haft Awrang:
Simpson, Marianna S. Sultan Ibrahim Haft Awrang . 1556.
The Beloved:
Foundation, Encyclopaedia Iranica. BELOVED. RSS,
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/beloved.
Homosexuality in Persian literature:
Homosexuality in Persian Literature. Encyclopedia Iranica. Volume 12, December 15, 2004,
pp. 445-448, pp.449-454.
Beholding Beauty:
Ingenito, Domenico. Beholding Beauty. BRILL, 2020.