Essays, Articles, and Manuscripts
Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady has written over a hundred essays and articles in the fields of Islamic mysticism, philosophy, and Persian literature. Some of them are listed below. He was also the general editor of a monumental three-volume book on Iranian art and culture, The Splendour of Iran (2001). He has edited and introduced the works of several lesser known classical Iranian mystics and Persian poets, such as Abu'l-Hasan Busti, Abu Mansur Esfahani, Mobarakshah Marvirudi, Yar-Ali Tabrizi, and Awhad al-Din Razi.
Recent Essays and Presentations' Manuscripts
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THE NOTION OF BREATH (NAFAS) IN HALLAJ
Published in Persica XVII, 2001
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LOVE AND THE METAPHOR OF DRUNKENNESS
Presented at the Asia Society, New York
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Rudaki and the Survival of Persian Language
(A Lecture Delivered at the United Nations in New York on the Occasion of Celebration of the 1150th Anniversary of the Persian Poet Rudaki, 18 July 2008)
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Presented at Harvard University (April 18, 2008)
And at the University of Chicago (May 2, 2008) -
Doing Research in Islamic and Persian Studies in Germany
(A Speech delvered at the Annual Meeting of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin on July 11, 2006)
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A Report of My Stay in Berlin
(From March 2006 to Feb. 2007)
- AN HEIR TO TWO
MYSTICAL LITERARY TRADITIONS:
Shah Ni‘matullàh Wali: AnHeir to two Mystical Literary Traditions
Other Essays and Presentations' Manuscripts
- A critical edition of Ahmad Ghazzali's Sawanih (1980) and its English translation (1986)
- Ru'yat-e mah dar asman (La vision de Dieu en theologie et mystique musulmane) (1996)
- Eshraq va erfan (2001) and Do mojadded (2002), which is a study of two key figures in the development of Islamic thought, Abu Hamid Ghazzali and Fakhruddin Razi.
- The following link diercts you to complete text of Dr. Pourjavady on Abu Abu Hamed al-Ghazzali and Fakhruddin Razi, entitled " Do Mojadded" ( Two Renewers of Faith). This book is written in Persian (Farsi) language. However, it includes a preface by professor Landolt in English.
For additional published essays, articles by Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavady, please click on Curriculum Vitae
The impact of the ideas and terminology of Ibn ‘Arabí’s School on Shàh Ni‘matullàh is not only discernable in the latter’s prose works, but also in his Divan of Poetry, a work of some 14,000 lines, containing lyric poetry (ghazals) as well as short mathnawis and quatrains (rubà‘ís).