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Radio Rumi is hosted by Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz at the University of Maryland. Keshavarz is author of award winning books including Reading Mystical Lyric: the Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi (USC Press,1998), Recite in the Name of the Red Rose (USC Press, 2006) and a book of literary analysis and social commentary titled Jasmine and Stars: Reading more than Lolita in Tehran (UNC Press, 2007). She has also published other books and numerous journal articles. Keshavarz is a published poet in Persian and English and an activist for peace and justice.
Radio Rumi Program 66: The Lands and Seas Are Vast, and the People Numerous
In this summer special episode, I discuss the worldly awareness of medieval Persian poets and thinkers, emphasizing their attention to cultures different than their own. Three figures are showcased: the philosopher Aziz Nasafi, Rumi, and Sa'di of Shiraz.
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Poetry
Articles
- “The Gender of Poetry” in Women Poets Digital Compendium, an integrative compendium of classical and contemporary women poets. U. of Toronto & Encyclopedia Iranica. Ed. M. Tavakoli Targhi. Forthcoming July 1, 2022
- “The Global Language of Companionship: Rumi, the Bridge Builder” in The Global Middle East, ed. Asef Bayat & Linda Herrera. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021), 49-59.
- “Hafez, the Earthly Sky-walker: Building our Space in a Shifting Universe,” Sufi Journal,” Washington, DC & London (Fall 2019).
- “Taste and See: a Religion and Literature Dialogue,” in collaboration with Peter S. Hawkins. Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (Summer 2015)
- “Faith in the Academy: a Visit to ‘Where the Fearful Things are’,” Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, issue 44.3 (autumn 2012)
- “Sewn Together with the Thread of the Sun: Religion and Literature as a Discipline,” Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 41.2 (Summer 2009): 37- 44.
- “Sa’di’s Earthly Vision of Sainthood in the Bustān and the Gulistān.” In Tale of God’s Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation. Ed. John Renard. (Berkley:University of California Press, 2008), 92-99.
- Life as a Stream and the Psychology of “Moment” in Hafiz’verse: Application of the Blending Theory. Keshavarz, F., & Ghassemzadeh, H. Journal of Pragmatics (2008), 40, 1781-1798.
- “Flight of the Birds: the Poetic Animating the Spiritual in ‘Attars Mantiq al-tayr,” in Intimations of Immortality. Ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006)107-129.
- “Taming of the Unruly King: Nizami’s Shirin as Lover and Educator,” in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Ed. Guiti Nashat and Lois Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003), 186-205. Winner, Choice Magazine Award, 2004.
- “Pregnant With God: the Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred in Rumi’s Fihi ma fih.” Journal of Comparative Study of South Asia and the Middle East, Vol. XXII, No. 1-2, 2003, pp. 90-99.
- “The Call to Prayer from the Cypress Tree: Modernity and Redefining the Spiritual in Persian Poetry,” Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 29.1 (1997): 17-42.
- “Much Have I Roamed through the Worlds Far Quarters: In Search of Sa`di’s Self-image,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 26 (1994): 465-475.
- “Convention and Innovation in the Divan-i Shams,” The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin 17 (1993): 92-98.
- “Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 2 (1984): 197-208.
- “Horoscope of a Persian Prince,” Illustrated London News (Christmas Issue, 40), 1981.