Written by Kristof D’hulster
 

In the garden of virtue, there once was a rosebush,

who held versification’s art in the highest esteem (…)

a bud in the rose garden of grace,

charm’s sweet-s […]

By Bakir S. Mohammad

 
A prominent scholar who, wherever he rode, 300 of his students – who were jurists – accompanied him on foot, Al-Rāzī was known for mastering Qur’anic exegesis[tafsīr], principles of Isl […]

By Nasrin Askari
 

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Nicknamed as the “Parrot of India” for his exceptional eloquence, Amīr Khusraw of Delhi (1253–1325) wrote elaborate prose introductions to all his dīvāns, but the one he wrote to his Ghurrat al-kamāl (The Full Moon of Perfection) — compiled around 1293–94, at the…[Read more]

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The broken history of dream writing in Persian is permeated with extant, partially extant and non-extant dream interpretation manuals and encyclopaedias as well as sporadic references, in poetry and prose, to the dreams that prophets, kings, Shiʿite imams, Sufi s…[Read more]

Although Jahan Malek Khatun has not received the same attention as her contemporary Hafez, who was also from Shiraz, her ghazals, which mix witty sarcasm with provocative reflections on female desire, […]

قوس طيسفون (طاق كسرى) في العراق المعاصر
في رثائه الإمبراطورية الساسانية المفقودة، يأسف خاقاني لفقدان نظام حكم عظيم. ولكن رثاءه ليس مجرد حنين إلى العائلات السابقة، بل يعمل على عدة مستويات رمزية. يعتمد […]

Saleh Razzouk on Arabic poet al-Mutannabi
 

يقدم لنا الشعر العربي بعض النماذج المبكرة االتي يمكن اعتبارها من فصيلة ( الفرسان ) ، أو الرموز الحاملة لقيم وجودية أصيلة . و من بين هؤلاء الملك الضليل امرؤ ا […]

 
Below is a list of titles for which we invite reviews. The list will be updated as new titles appear (and as reviewers claim them).
If you would like to review for us, please write us at globalliterarytheory@gmail.com. If you don’t know what title you’d like to review but would like to be added as a potential review, feel free to let us…[Read more]

By Riti Sharma

“The comic view is an element, in many ways, a perpetually corrective element, in making a personality or an enterprise completely intelligible”. -Kierkegaard

Work took me to the Northern part of India last year, where I came to a town in Uttarakhand. The town boasts a population of Hindi and Urdu-speakers and like many town…[Read more]

 By Rebecca Ruth Gould

Michael Sells’s translation of Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, The Translator of Desires: Poems (released in April 2021) is the latest in a series of Sells’ translations of the Arabic classics, which begins with his rendering of the pre-Islamic odes called the Mu’allaqat. This translation is also the first complete En…[Read more]

Translation by GlobaLit postdoc Kristof D’hulster
 
Ḥasan al-Alqadārī (1834-1910) was a scholar, poet, and historian who was born in southern Daghestan, not far from Azerbaijan. Although his native language was Lezgi, he composed many works in Arabic, Persian, and Turkic.

His Āsār-i Daǧıstān is an innovative and genre-bending chronicle…[Read more]

Aida Gasimova, Professor of Arabic Literature (Baku State University)
Azeri (Ādharī ) Turkic literature is a prolific branch of medieval Turkish literatures, a unique tradition represented by a pleiad of poets, Qāḍī Burhānuddīn (d. 800/1398), ‘Imāduddīn Nesīmī (d. 820/1417–18), Mīrzā Jahān Shāh Ḥaqīqī (d. 871/1467), Ni‘matullāh Kishwarī (X…[Read more]

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