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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism,” Comparative Literature (2019) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article engages with cosmopolitan conceptions of culture that flourished in the nineteenth century Caucasus with a view to clarifying the relevance of these legacies today. I focus in particular on the polymath writer ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate liter…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism,” Comparative Literature (2019) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis article engages with cosmopolitan conceptions of culture that flourished in the nineteenth century Caucasus with a view to clarifying the relevance of these legacies today. I focus in particular on the polymath writer ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate liter…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism,” Comparative Literature (2019) on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This article engages with cosmopolitan conceptions of culture that flourished in the nineteenth century Caucasus with a view to clarifying the relevance of these legacies today. I focus in particular on the polymath writer ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate liter…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Many Languages of Islam in the Caucasus,” EurasiaNet in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis essay explores the internal diversity of Islam in the Caucasus.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Democratizing the American University,” Inside Higher Ed in the group
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago“Democratizing the American University” argues for a more democratic approach to academic appointments within the US academy.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Many Languages of Islam in the Caucasus,” EurasiaNet on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
This essay explores the internal diversity of Islam in the Caucasus.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Democratizing the American University,” Inside Higher Ed on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months ago
“Democratizing the American University” argues for a more democratic approach to academic appointments within the US academy.
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Ghazzal Dabiri deposited “When a Lion is Chided by an Ant”: Everyday Saints and the Making of Sufi Kings in ʿAttār’s Elāhi-nāma on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
This paper addresses Farid al-Din ʿAttār’s views on social and kingly ethics as espoused in the Elāhināma. It offers a holistic reading of its stories, which are suffused with the tenets of Sufism, to illustrate the myriad ways that the Elāhināma adopts and adapts the characteristics and tropes of practical ethics and Sufi hagiogr…[Read more]
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Ghazzal Dabiri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
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Ghazzal Dabiri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Words That Offend Vs. Actions That Harm – Antisemitism, Racism, Islamophobia with Rebecca Gould,” Just Thinking Out Loud (podcast + video interview) in the group
Legal history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIs there a dichotomy between tolerance and free speech? A discussion on free speech, hate crimes, and tolerance within the context of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism, along with the debate within the UK around the governmental definitions for these forms of bigotry.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIn the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Words That Offend Vs. Actions That Harm – Antisemitism, Racism, Islamophobia with Rebecca Gould,” Just Thinking Out Loud (podcast + video interview) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Is there a dichotomy between tolerance and free speech? A discussion on free speech, hate crimes, and tolerance within the context of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racism, along with the debate within the UK around the governmental definitions for these forms of bigotry.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations,” forthcoming in Modernism/Modernity (2021) on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
In the wake of modernism studies’ global turn, this article considers the role of translation in fostering Iranian modernism. Focusing on the poetic translations of Bijan Elahi (1945-2010), one of Iran’s most significant poet-translators, we demonstrate how untranslatability becomes a point of departure for his experimental poetics. Elahi used pre…[Read more]
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Ghazzal Dabiri's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Translation Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Persian and Persianate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Bijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus” in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBijan Elahi, “Five Scenes from Icarus,” The Kenyon Review issue XLI (2019): 75-77.
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