Talk
Walking in the Steps of Poets: Courtly Themes in Early Sufism
Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 6:30PM
NYUAD Campus, Conference Center
Past Event
Open to the Public
It is common practice in modern times to read mystical poetry and apply it to our mundane lives and loves. Sufis in the early period did the opposite. Their mystical hymns often spun out of the courtly poetic ghazal, panegyric, and wine songs. This talk highlights the relation of the Arabic courtly poetic canon to early Sufism.
It is common practice in modern times to read mystical poetry and apply it to our mundane lives and loves. Sufis in the early period did the opposite. Their mystical hymns often spun out of the courtly poetic ghazal, panegyric, and wine songs. This talk highlights the relation of the Arabic courtly poetic canon to early Sufism.
- Bilal Orfali, Chairperson and Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, American University of Beirut
- NYU Abu Dhabi Institute