Stefan Sperl, a graduate of Oxford (Arabic) and SOAS (PhD 1977), and former staff member of UNHCR (1978-88), is now Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS. His publications include articles on Arabic, Islamic and Refugee Studies, as well as Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (1989), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Africa and Asia (with Christopher Shackle, 1996) and The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship (with Ahmed Moustafa, 2014), which won the Iran Book of the Year Award (2016). His most recent publication is 'The Qur'an and Arabic Poetry' (The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies, 2020). Yorgos Dedes's teaching includes courses on Ottoman and Modern Turkish language, literature and culture. Since 2005 he has also been teaching at the Intensive Ottoman and Turkish Summer School in Cunda, Turkey. His research interests focus on Ottoman literature and Turkish culture with special reference to frontier epic traditions and relations with Byzantium and Greece. Another area of interest is the aljamiado literature of the Greek- speaking Muslims of the Ottoman empire. Recent publications include a book chapter on Bursa in Europe: A Literary History, edited by David Wallace (CUP 2015), an edition of the Greek aljamiado translation of Süleymân Çelebî's Mevlid-i nebî (Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013) and an article on Ottoman poetry with Stefan Sperl ("'In the rose-bower every leaf is a page of delicate meaning': An Arabic perspective on three Ottoman kasides", in Eski Edebiyat Çalismalari VIII, Istanbul 2013).
Show moreStefan Sperl, a graduate of Oxford (Arabic) and SOAS (PhD 1977), and former staff member of UNHCR (1978-88), is now Emeritus Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS. His publications include articles on Arabic, Islamic and Refugee Studies, as well as Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (1989), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Africa and Asia (with Christopher Shackle, 1996) and The Cosmic Script: Sacred Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship (with Ahmed Moustafa, 2014), which won the Iran Book of the Year Award (2016). His most recent publication is 'The Qur'an and Arabic Poetry' (The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies, 2020). Yorgos Dedes's teaching includes courses on Ottoman and Modern Turkish language, literature and culture. Since 2005 he has also been teaching at the Intensive Ottoman and Turkish Summer School in Cunda, Turkey. His research interests focus on Ottoman literature and Turkish culture with special reference to frontier epic traditions and relations with Byzantium and Greece. Another area of interest is the aljamiado literature of the Greek- speaking Muslims of the Ottoman empire. Recent publications include a book chapter on Bursa in Europe: A Literary History, edited by David Wallace (CUP 2015), an edition of the Greek aljamiado translation of Süleymân Çelebî's Mevlid-i nebî (Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013) and an article on Ottoman poetry with Stefan Sperl ("'In the rose-bower every leaf is a page of delicate meaning': An Arabic perspective on three Ottoman kasides", in Eski Edebiyat Çalismalari VIII, Istanbul 2013).
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Acknowledgements
STEFAN SPERL AND YORGOS DEDES: Introduction: 'A Thing All Living
Faces'
PART 1. From Paganism and Eastern Christianity to the Islamic World
(fourth to seventeenth centuries CE)
1: DAVID HERNÁNDEZ DE LA FUENTE: Neoplatonism and Poetics in
Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature
2: STEFAN SPERL: Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in
Classical Arabic Poetry
3: ALEXANDER KEY: What are Neoplatonic Poetics? Allegory; figure;
genre
4: KAZUYO MURATA: Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Ruzbihan Baqli on
Beauty
5: WALTER G. ANDREWS: Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic
Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life
6: DIDEM HAVLIOGLU: Mihrî Hatun and Neoplatonic Discourse:
Legitimation of Women>'s Writing in Early Modern Ottoman
Poetry
7: CARL W. ERNST: Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the
Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India
PART II. Jewish Neoplatonism and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim and
Christian Realms (eleventh to seventeenth centuries CE)
8: ADENA TANENBAUM: Andalusian Hebrew Poems on the Soul and their
Afterlife
9: JOACHIM YESHAYA: Karaite Poems about the Nature of the Soul from
the Muslim East, Byzantium and Eastern Europe
PART III. Christian and Jewish Neoplatonism in Italy and Spain
(fourteenth to seventeenth centuries CE)
10: CRISTINA D>'ANCONA: 'Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto':
The Philosophical Background of Dante's Paradiso I, 1-12 and IV,
22-60
11: SUZANNE STERN-GILLET: Agathon Redivivus: Love and Incorporeal
Beauty in Ficino>'s De Amore, Speech V
12: ABIGAIL BRUNDIN: 'REILLY: The Christian Neoplatonism of
Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano
15: JULIAN WEISS: A Poetics of Difference: Neoplatonism and the
Discourse of Desire in the Early Modern Spanish Love Lyric 339
PART IV. Neoplatonism in Modern Poetry: Splintered but Vibrant
16: PETER ROBINSON: An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale
17: CLAUDIO RODRÍGUEZ FER: Eroticism of the Infinite: Neoplatonism,
Kabbalism, and Sufism in the work of José Ángel Valente
18: ROBIN OSTLE: Body and Soul in the Arabic Literature of the
Americas
19: FERIAL J. GHAZOUL: Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry:
The Case of Mu?ammad ?Afifi Ma?ar
20: AHMAD KARIMI-HAKKAK: Shards of Infinitude: Neoplatonist Relics
in Modern Persian Poetry
21: NESLIHAN DEMIRKOL and MEHMET KALPAKLI: The New Image of the
Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition
in Modern Turkish Poetry
22: DAVID RICKS: Neoplatonists in Modern Greek poetry
Index
Stefan Sperl, a graduate of Oxford (Arabic) and SOAS (PhD 1977),
and former staff member of UNHCR (1978-88), is now Emeritus
Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS. His
publications include articles on Arabic, Islamic and Refugee
Studies, as well as Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural
Analysis of Selected Texts (1989), Qasida Poetry in Islamic Africa
and Asia (with Christopher Shackle, 1996) and The Cosmic
Script: Sacred
Geometry and the Science of Arabic Penmanship (with Ahmed Moustafa,
2014), which won the Iran Book of the Year Award (2016). His most
recent publication is 'The Qur'an and Arabic Poetry' (The Oxford
Handbook of Qur'anic Studies, 2020). Yorgos Dedes's teaching
includes courses on Ottoman and Modern Turkish language, literature
and culture. Since 2005 he has also been teaching at the Intensive
Ottoman and Turkish Summer School in Cunda, Turkey. His research
interests
focus on Ottoman literature and Turkish culture with special
reference to frontier epic traditions and relations with Byzantium
and Greece. Another area of interest is the aljamiado literature of
the Greek-
speaking Muslims of the Ottoman empire. Recent publications
include a book chapter on Bursa in Europe: A Literary History,
edited by David Wallace (CUP 2015), an edition of the Greek
aljamiado translation of Süleymân Çelebî>'s Mevlid-i nebî
(Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013) and an article on Ottoman poetry
with Stefan Sperl (
The volume is full of fascinating insights and implicit links and
it provides an original overview of poetry in a Neoplatonic vein in
the confluence of Europe, Africa and Asia, ranging from the 4th
Century CE right up to the modern world.
*Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA, International
Journal of the Platonic Tradition*
The volume is full of fascinating insights and implicit links and
it provides an original overview of poetry in a Neoplatonic vein in
the confluence of Europe, Africa and Asia, ranging from the 4th
Century CE right up to the modern world.
*Kevin Corrigan, International Journal of Neoplatonic Studies*
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