New Light on Reading Rumi
Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak & Dr. Alan Williams
Farhang Foundation proudly presented
a Farhang Connect Live event with renowned scholars
Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
(University of Maryland & UCLA)
Dr. Alan Williams
(University of Manchester)
who discussed a new light on reading Rumi in our times.
Dr. Williams focused on his latest published books
THE MASNAVI OF RUMI
A New English Translation with Persian Text and Explanatory Notes
Now Available Online
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Download the introduction to:
THE MASNAVI OF RUMI by Dr. Alan Williams
Download Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak’s Article:
Converging Zones - Persian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History
The event was held live on Zoom, on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020.
Dr. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is Professor Emeritus of Persian language, literature, and culture at the University of Maryland and adjunct Professor of Persian Literature at UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Language and Culture (NELC). He has studied in Iran and the United States, having received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 1979. He writes in Persian and English and is the author, editor or translator of twenty five academic books and over one hundred and fifty research articles, some of which have been translated into other languages. His 1995 book titled Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran [translated into Persian as Tali`eh-ye Tajaddod dar She`r-e Farsi] is required reading for Ph.D. students of Persian literature in Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. His most recent works are Bud va Nemud-e Sokhan (in Persian, Tehran 2015, Los Angeles 2016) and A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran (in English, Leiden University Press, 2019).
Dr. Alan Williams
Alan Williams has devoted the majority of his professional life to the study of Rumi. Now Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Manchester since 1985, and Chair of Research at the British Institute of Persian Studies since 2010, he studied Classics, and Persian and Arabic, for his BA and MA at the University of Oxford (1976), and Iranian Studies for his PhD at SOAS, University of London (1983). He has published The Pahlavi Rivāyat Accompanying the Dādestān ī Dēnīg (Royal Danish Academy of Sciences 1990), Spiritual Verses (Penguin Classics, 2006), Parsis in India and the Diaspora (ed., Routledge 2007), Shafi‘i Kadkani Dar āyine-ye rūd Selected Poems (ed., Sokhan 2008); The Zoroastrian Myth of Migration (Brill, 2009); The Zoroastrian Flame Exploring Religion, History and Tradition (ed., IB Tauris 2016); Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and the Next (ed., Harrassowitz 2017); The Masnavi of Rumi: a new English translation with Persian text and explanatory notes, Books 1 and 2 (IB Tauris, 2020). He was British Academy Research Professor (2013-16) and Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow (2016-19. He is a consultant/trustee of numerous charitable trusts, including the Iran Heritage Foundation and the E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust.
