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The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam

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Een Perzische Valentijn: “Ik kniel voor je neer, geen deur naar de Kaaba is open”

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

King and Concubine: Is Rūmī As Forgiving in Love as He is Depicted Online?

Dr. Zhinia Noorian - 8 February 2024 , Blogs, Home

Rūmī and Erasmus: Humanism from East and West

Maarten Holtzapffel - 19 December 2023 , Blogs

A Smile without a Mouth

Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi - 4 December 2023 , Blogs

Jahān-Malik Khātūn (d. about 1393): A Pioneer in Transgressing Iranian-Muslim Gender Norms

Dr. Zhinia Noorian - 20 June 2023 , Blogs

The Same Old Story (or Song)

The Kharābāt from 12th Century Ghazna to Contemporary Kabul

Alexandra Nieweg - 14 May 2023 , Blogs

De Kharābāt in Erdbrink en Poëzie: een Centrum van Kritiek op Orthodoxie

Alexandra Nieweg - 20 April 2023 , Blogs

The Litanies of Absence:  Mughal India meets the Italian Renaissance in Rushdie’s ‘The Enchantress of Florence’

Fatemeh Naghshvarian - 13 March 2023 , Blogs

Jezus en de Hond

Prof.dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab - 10 March 2023 , Blogs, Home

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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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