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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Cyrus Ali Zargar, "Religion of Love: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of Źæaį¹į¹Är" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Description: Farid al-Din āAttarās writings have greatly influenced Persian Sufism, but what do we know of him as a thinker? Engaging his diverse writings from poetry to stories, Cyrus Ali ZargarāsĀ Religion of Live: Sufism and Self-Transformation in the Poetic Imagination of āAttarĀ (SUNY Press, 2024) captures for us some of āAttarās worldviews, especially as it isĀ rooted in a Persian and Muslim historical context. The bookĀ gives us insights to āAttarās take on moral psychology, ethics, and intellectual debates he was responding to, such as with philosophers and legal scholars. Zargar captures āAttarās religion of love, which takes us to...