MLA Commons | Persian (Language, Literature, and Culture) | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/persian-language-literature-and-culture/ Activity feed for the group, Persian (Language, Literature, and Culture). Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:28:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 cfa1e5cc8686ad68ceb3b1453de9479a Austin O'Malley started the topic Special Session @ MLA '16: Imagined Performance Contexts in Persian Literature in the discussion Persian (Language, Literature, and Culture) https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/persian-language-literature-and-culture/forum/topic/special-session-mla-16-imagined-performance-contexts-in-persian-literature/ Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:36:28 -0400 The pioneering scholarship of Franklin Lewis, Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, and a number of scholars of Sufism (During, Lewisohn, Avery) over the last two decades has adumbrated the general contours of the medieval Persian “poetic assembly” (majles) and the Sufi musico-poetic meditative ritual (sama’). However, medieval Persianists have only just…[Read more]

]]> 0 d02120be48a65dacbf6377d260140adc Matthew Thomas Miller created the group Persian (Language, Literature, and Culture) https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/89167/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:09:18 -0500 0