Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and his Book of Kings Evidence from the Bāysonghori Preface Olga M. Davidson | May 29, 2020 Texts & Translations The focus here is on two Persianate texts. The first is the Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings’, the monumental poem of a poet retrospectively named Ferdowsi, or ‘man of paradise’, who lived in the late 10th and early 11th century CE. The second text is in prose: it is a comparably monumental preface to a lavish new edition of the Shahnama that was commissioned in 1426 CE and published in 1430 under the aegis of a Timurid prince named Bāysonghor. Read the rest of this entry
The Cats That Did Not Meow An Historian of Iran Discovers Thailand H. E. Chehabi | March 11, 2020 Images & Intersections / Politics & Identity About Images & Intersections We are so used to thinking in regional terms that instinctively we are more at ease with comparisons between adjacent countries. Read the rest of this entry
The Global Qur’an (GloQur) Johanna Pink | March 10, 2020 Critical Approaches / Texts & Translations About Critical Approaches “The Global Qur’an (GloQur)” will be the first project that tackles the global dimension of Muslim Qur’an translation in the 20th and 21st centuries, a topic that has so far attracted surprisingly little attention in Islamic Studies. Read the rest of this entry