Jāmī in Regional Contexts

Thibaut d'Hubert, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor in the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has published several articles on Middle Bengali and Indo-Persian literature and is the author of In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan (OUP New York, 2018). Alexandre Papas, Ph.D. (2004), is a Senior Research Fellow (Directeur de recherche) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. He is the author of several books and articles on Central Asia and Islamic mysticism, including Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan (J. Maisonneuve, 2005); Mystiques et vagabonds en islam (Cerf, 2010), and Thus Spake the Dervish(Brill, 2019). Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Hamid Algar, Thibaut d’Hubert, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek, Rebecca Gould, Ayesha Irani, Alexey Khismatulin, Frank Lewis, Chad Lingwood, Paul Losensky, Mohamad Nasrin Nasir, Luther Obrock, Ertuğrul Ökten, Alexandre Papas, Ryan Perkins, Francis Richard, Sajjad Rizvi, Florian Schwarz, Sunil Sharma, Marc Toutant, Yiming Shen, Paul Wormser.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Thibaut d’Hubert and Alexandre Papas



Part 1: The Routes of Books

1 A Case of Literary Success The Spread of Jāmī’s Poetical Works throughout the Near East

 Francis Richard

2 Approaching Jāmī through Visual Culture The Popularization of Yūsuf-Zulaykhā in Persianate Societies

 Sunil Sharma

3 Jāmī and the Ottomans

 Hamid Algar

4 Scholar, Saint, and Poet Jāmī in the Indo-Muslim World

 Muzaffar Alam

5 The Arab Reception of Jāmī in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries al-Fawāʾid al-ḍiyāʾiyya and al-Durra al-fākhira

 Florian Schwarz

6 Nūr al-dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī in Sufi Writings in Malay

 Mohamad Nasrin Nasir



Part 2: Translating Islam and Sufism

7 Before the Safavid-Ottoman Conflict Jāmī and Sectarianism in Timurid Iran and Iraq

 Sajjad H. Rizvi

8 Trading Pearls for Beads Jāmī’s Qaṣīdas in Praise of Sulṭān Yaʿqūb and their Significance to Āq Quyūnlū History

 Chad Lingwood

9 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī and the Ottoman Linguistic Tradition Philosophy of Language and ʿIlm al-Waḍʿ

 Ertuğrul Ökten

10 Jāmī’s Statement on the Authorship of the Anīs al-ṭālibīn

 Alexey Khismatulin

11 Jāmī’s Sharḥ-i rubāʿiyyāt dar vaḥdat-i vujūd Merging Akbarian Doctrine, Naqshbandī Practice, and Persian Mystical Quatrain

 Eve Feuillebois

12 The Recreation of Jāmī’s Lavāʾiḥ by Ḥamza Fanṣūrī

 Paul Wormser

13 Individual Sanctity and Islamization in the Ṭabaqāt Books of Jāmī, Navāʾī, Lāmiʿī, and Some Others

 Alexandre Papas

14 Jāmī and his Texts in China Proper

 Yiming Shen



Part 3: Beyond the Seal of the Poets

15 To Round and Rondeau the Canon Jāmī and Fānī’s Reception of the Persian Lyrical Tradition

 Franklin Lewis

16 “Utterly Fluent, but Seldom Fresh” Jāmī’s Reception among the Safavids

 Paul Losensky

17 Evaluating Jāmī’s Influence on Navā’ī The Case Studies of the Khiradnāma-yi iskandarī and the Sadd-i iskandarī

 Marc Toutant

18 Foundational Maḥabbat-nāmas Jāmī’s Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Bengal (ca. 16th–19th AD)

 Thibaut d’Hubert

19 Love’s New Pavilions Śāhā Mohāmmad Chagīr’s Retelling of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā in Early Modern Bengal

 Ayesha Irani

20 Śrīvara’s Kathākautuka Cosmology, Translation, and the Life of a Text in Sultanate Kashmir

 Luther Obrock

21 A Bounty of Gems Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Pashto

 Ryan Perkins

22 Sweetening the Heavy Georgian Tongue Jāmī in the Georgian-Persianate Ecumene

 Rebecca Gould



Index of Names and Places

Index of Works