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Harvard-Zaytuna Thesis Symposium Inaugural Lecture

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The Harvard Undergraduate Theologos Society, in partnership with The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and The Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations is delighted to invite you to this year’s Inaugural Symposium lecture offered by Shaykh...

Lyric Mimesis: Vaṣf and its Objects in Early New Persian Verse

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What do we mean when we say that classical Persianate poetry is highly conventional? Can we find traces of classical poets’ encounters with the real world in their beautiful but cliché-filled descriptions of ruby wine, idol-beloveds, and the multicolored...

Modern Heroines: Women in Classical Persian Literature

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This lecture focuses on the female characters who are at the centre of love poems written in Persian between the 10th and 15th centuries. I argue that these women, such as the ruthless Vis, the clever Shirin, the artful Fitna, the meticulous Layla, the...

Carina Dreyer

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Carina Dreyer is a PhD student in Islamic Intellectual History at Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Before coming to Harvard, she received an MA degree in History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with a focus...

Elissa Day

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Elissa Day is a PhD student in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations program at Harvard, focussing on Egyptology. She has a strong interest in GIS and remote sensing, as well as the digital humanities more broadly.