Jami in Regional Contexts: The Reception of 'Abd Al-Rahman Jami's Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how 'Abd al-Rahman Jami (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practices emerges as well as questions surrounding authorship and authority in the making of vernacular cultures. Specialists of Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, Malay, Pashto, Sanskrit, Urdu, Turkish, and Bengali thus provide a unique connected account of the conception and reception of Jami's works throughout the Eurasian continent and maritime Southeast Asia.
Author Biography:
Thibaut d'Hubert, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor in the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has published several articles on Middle Bengali and Indo-Persian literature and is the author of In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan (OUP New York, 2018).
Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is a Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de recherche) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is the author of several books and articles on Central Asia and Islamic mysticism, including Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan (J. Maisonneuve, 2005); Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010), and Thus Spake the Dervish(forthcoming).
Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Hamid Algar, Thibaut d'Hubert, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Rebecca Gould, Ayesha Irani, Alexey Khismatulin, Frank Lewis, Chad Lingwood, Paul Losensky, Mohamad Nasrin Nasir, Luther Obrock, Ertugrul OEkten, Alexandre Papas, Ryan Perkins, Francis Richard, Sajjad Rizvi, Florian Schwarz, Sunil Sharma, Marc Toutant, Yiming Shen, Paul Wormser.
