Online lecture. Trickles from the Fountain of Life': Sufi lives and afterlives in Persian literature from sixteenth-century Central Asia
April 11, 2020
The Central Asian Studies Institute, in coordination with FYS/SYS, is pleased to invite faculty and students to an online lecture by Professor Nicholas Walmsley, Director of Core Humanities and College Writing at AUCA, entitled "'Trickles from the Fountain of Life': Sufi lives and afterlives in Persian literature from sixteenth-century Central Asia.”
The lecture will be conducted via Zoom.
AUCA faculty and students can access it through the link: https://zoom.us/j/608528163?pwd=b3M4OGpCWi95eW9vWExWZHVwNzZ0QT09.
In this talk Prof. Walmsley will examine the presentation of the lives of Sufi shaykhs in the Persian literature of early sixteenth-century Central Asia. Combining a literary and sociological approach to the writing and recording of lives in spiritual biographies (tazkira), the talk will explore the impact of key authors and key texts in moulding the reputation of major and minor figures in the history of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. It considers the discrepancies between texts in the description of Sufi lives as a product of the influence of some texts at the expense of others, using the life of Maulana Alauddin Maktabdar of Herat as a case study.
You will be prompted to download a free version of Zoom or join via you web browser. Those wishing to download Zoom – it generally provides for a better connection – are advised to do so in advance of the meeting’s start time.
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