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The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam

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5 Sept 2024: Keynote lecture by Professor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (University of Oxford)

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon - 24 July 2024 , Events, News

5-6 September: Conference ‘Limits, Boundaries, and Transgression in Literatures and Languages of the Persianate World’

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon - 4 July 2024 , Events

Video series on Beyond Sharia project

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon - 13 June 2024 , News

Romantic Ascetics and Epic Lovers:

From Niẓāmī’s Majnūn to Feyżī’s Nal

Fatemeh Naghshvarian - 12 June 2024 , Blogs, News

Studieweek mystiek 2024 – Titus Brandsma Instituut

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon - 2 May 2024 , Events, News

30 April 2024: Lecture by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon - 18 April 2024 , Events

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Team

Prof.dr. Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Projectleader

Dr. Bodil Carina Ponte-Kok

Project Coordinator

Maarten Holtzapffel

Phd Candidate

Amin Ghodratzadeh

Phd Candidate

Alexandra Nieweg

Phd Candidate

Fatemeh Naghshvarian

PhD Candidate

Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi

Post-doctorate Fellow

Dr. Zhinia Noorian

Post-doctorate Fellow

Dr. Leila Rahimi Bahmany

Post- doctorate Fellow

Dr. Diede Farhosh-van Loon

Project Coordinator (Sept 2021- Oct 2024)

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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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