Persian poetry draws its main spirit from Hebrew and early Christian sources, though through the channel of Muhammedanism ; and we may say that it rises above or falls below the classical ...

Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...

We have regularly been reviewing Dr. Shadab Ahmed’s diverse and contrasting books. Dr. Shadab Ahmed is an Oral & ...

Perhaps a comparison to religion is more apt: Poetry is to Iranians what religion is to the religious. But this analogy is a bit off — not just because many Iranians are religious — but also because ...

CAN you please pass on to Charles Perry my congratulations for a terrific article on Sufi/Persian cooking ("Poetry in Every Plate," March 22).

Sher-e sepid (literally, white verse), removed all limitations from Persian poetry. It made the role of systematic rhyming obsolete and relied on redefining poetic modes and creating new ...

Nowhere in the world is poetry more highly valued than in Iran, so it is not surprising that the singing of poetry is central to Persian musical culture. Furthermore, the values of music and dance are ...

In “The World of Persian Literary Humanism,” Hamid Dabashi writes that “the physical beauty” of Hafez’s poetry is “above and beyond anything achieved before or after in Persian lyrics.” ...

formidable improviser with a remarkable alto, Parissa appears here with the Dastan Ensemble: Hamid Motebassem (tar lute), Hossein Behroozinia (barbat lute), Saeed Farajpouri (kamanche fiddle), and ...

A pe culiarity of Persian and Ottoman poetry is that it almost always possesses, beneath its literal meaning, a subtle esoteric spiritual signification. Many poems, of which the "Mesnevi," of ...

Iranian jazz singer Rana Farhan sets the Persian verses of mystical poets like Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyám to the rhythms of cool American blues, jazz and soul.

Persian Poetry. To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna during the last year, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians. He has translated into German, besides the “ Divan ” of Hafiz ...