{"id":3663,"date":"2013-10-09T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T21:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=3663"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:18:37","slug":"sunil-sharma","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/sunil-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2026 office hours: TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunil Sharma\u2019s areas of expertise are premodern Persian and South Asian literatures. His research interests include poetry and court cultures, history of the book, and travel writing.<\/p>\n<p>He was the president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianatesocieties.org\/\">The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Courses:<br \/>\nPersian Epic and Romance (CAS LZ380)<br \/>\nRumi and Persian Sufi Poetry (CAS LZ381 \/ RN348)<br \/>\nLeaving Home: Explorations in World Literature (CAS XL100)<br \/>\nIntroduction to Middle Eastern Literature (CAS XL223)<br \/>\nIntroduction to South Asian Literature (CAS XL225)<br \/>\nMedieval Travel Writing and the Muslim World (CAS XL341)<br \/>\nAlexander the Great in the East (CAS XL343 \/ GRS XL743)<br \/>\n1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination (CAS LY441 \/XL441)<\/p>\n<p>Blogs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250417204722\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2024\/09\/the-hidden-mughal-princess-poet-zebunnisa-makhfi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Mughal Princess-Poet Zebunnisa &#8216;Makhfi&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250430193606\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2022\/12\/a-beloved-in-every-port-iskandars-encounters-with-women.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Beloved in Every Port: Iskandar&#8217;s Encounters with Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250117151506\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2022\/10\/five-centuries-of-copying-illustrating-and-reading-amir-khusraws-poetry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Centuries of Copying, Illustrating and Reading Amir Khusraw&#8217;s Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250210041936\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2021\/03\/the-courtesan-and-the-preacher-the-romance-of-mahsati.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Courtesan and the Preacher: The Romance of Mahsati, An Early Female Persian Poet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250813104549\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2016\/11\/the-ottoman-turkish-zenanname-book-of-women.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ottoman Turkish\u00a0<em>Zenanname\u00a0<\/em>(\u2018Book of Women\u2019)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250124102326\/https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/asian-and-african\/2017\/12\/the-flower-garden-phulban-an-illustrated-dakhni-romance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018The Flower Garden\u2019<em> (Phulban),\u00a0<\/em>An Illustrated Dakhni Romance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mizanproject.org\/the-history-of-akbar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The\u00a0<em>History of Akbar:\u00a0<\/em>Indo-Persian for a New Audience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trafo.hypotheses.org\/14756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mughal Arcadia: Persian Poetry in an Indian Court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunil Sharma&#8217;s CV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4149,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20067,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3663\/revisions\/20067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}