| Sunil Sharma | ||
 Faculty Member Assistant Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature sharma@bu.edu 718 Commonwealth Ave. Rm. 501 C Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-358-5854 |
Interests:
Courses: Publications: "Atiya Begum and the Mystery of the Beloved's Identity in Shibli Numani's Persian Ghazals." In Poetry's Voice, Society's Norms. Forms of Interaction Between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2006), 105-119. "Urdu and Persian Scholarly Publishing in Contemporary Gujarat (India)." Annual of Urdu Studies, v. 20 (2005). Amir Khusraw: Poet of Sultans and Sufis. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2005. (In the series edited by Professor Patricia Crone, "Makers of the Muslim World.") “The City of Beauties in the Indo-Persian Poetic Landscape.” In Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. XXIV, no. 2 (2004): 73-81. “The Sufi-Poet-Lover as Martyr: ‘Attār and Hāfiz in Persian Poetic Traditions.” Friederike Pannewick (Ed.), Martyrdom in Literature. Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2004). Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas'ud Sa'd Salman of Lahore. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2000. |
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