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The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam

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Dogs in Islamic Mystical Thought*

Prof.dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab - 16 January 2025 , Blogs

Rustam Resurrected: 20th-Century Technologies and the Afterlife in the First Persian Science Fiction

Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi - 9 January 2025 , Blogs

Rūmī and the Friends of God

The Story of Moses and the Shepherd

Maarten Holtzapffel - 8 November 2024 , Blogs

Mīrzā Fatḥ-ʿAlī Ākhūndzāde and His Idea of Protestantism in Islam

Dr. Leila Rahimi Bahmany - 19 September 2024 , Blogs

Rumi over virtue signalling

Alexandra Nieweg - 13 September 2024 , Blogs

Romantic Ascetics and Epic Lovers:

From Niẓāmī’s Majnūn to Feyżī’s Nal

Fatemeh Naghshvarian - 12 June 2024 , Blogs, News

The Elephant Parable

Fatemeh Naghshvarian - 9 April 2024 , Blogs

A Persian Parable on Humility

Prof.dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab - 6 March 2024 , Blogs, Home

A Persian Love Song

“I kneel before you: no door to the Kaʿba is open”

Prof.dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab - 14 February 2024 , Blogs

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 101020403).

    Beyond Sharia
    The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam

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    The images that make up the header of this website are sourced from the website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. From left to right they are:

    1 Painting attributed to Bihzad (Iranian, Herat ca. 1450–1535/36 Herat). "Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz. ca. 1480.  Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    2 Sa'di. "Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz" Late 15th century.  Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    3 "Youth and Dervish". Second quarter 17th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper (tinted drawing). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    4 Sa'di (Iranian, Shiraz ca. 1213–1291 Shiraz). "Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Gulistan of Sa'di. 17th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    5 Hafiz (Iranian, Shiraz ca. 1325–1390 Shiraz),  Luthfi (Iranian, 1367–1460s), Hilali (Iranian, Astarabad ca. 1470–1529/30 Herat), Mu’in (Iranian), Asir (Iranian, died probably 1639–40). "Anthology of Persian Poetry"  17th century.  Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Binding: opaque watercolor and gold on leather. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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