Description
Today, Islam is often depicted as exclusively orthodox and Sharia-centred, but Persian classical qalandariyyāt poetry shows that from the 12th century onwards, mystical Islamic ideas and doctrines have chiefly been communicated to broad Muslim audience in the Persian cultural areas through the vehicle of antinomian motifs, metaphors, imagery, and stories, to challenge the central religious hierarchy and Islamic orthodoxy. The qalandariyyāt genre, as a central part of antinomian movements, thus forms an important contribution to a more complete and accurate understanding of Islam. Despite this, scholarship on the topic has yet to give an analysis of the complete arsenal of the genre’s themes and motifs and leaves us with various questions regarding the relations between the genre and society, which I aim to contribute in my research. In particular, I shall focus on the qalandariyyāt poetry of Ḥakīm Sanāʾī (d. 1131). It is in Sanāʾī’s poetry that the genre appeared in a fully-fledged form for the first time. Although several authors have launched new investigations on the topic, a deep analysis of the genre is a desideratum. In this critical appraisal of studies done on the genre, I shall analyse the influential publications on classical qalandariyyāt poetry in chronological order, focusing on both the approach and the aspects of the poetry scholars of Persian and Iranian Studies have included in their discussions.| Period | 13 Oct 2022 |
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| Event title | Faces of Islam: Of Tolerance and Coercion |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Utrecht Show on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Ḥakīm Sanā’ī
- Qalandariyyāt
- Persian classical literature