Rob Ames is a lecturer on Persian Literature in Harvard's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and will be teaching Persian 105, "Beyond...

Area of research: I am a scholar with a threefold specialization in Arabic and Turkish literature, literary and cultural theory, and women’s and...

Area of research: Mystical Qur'anic exegesis, Sufi hermeneutics, 13th century, North Africa and Middle East. I was led to this unknown figure by Paul...