Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature

Kamran Talattof is Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona, USA. He is also the Founding Chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies. He has published widely across literature (modern and classical), Iranian and Middle Eastern culture, history and cinema, as well as Persian language pedagogy and translation

• 1. Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature.- 2. Nezami, the Persian Wordsmith: The Concept of Sakhon in Classical Persian Poetry.- 3. Women and Love in the Works of Nezami, Ferdowsi, and Jami.- 4. Faith, Facts, and Fantasy: Stories of Ascension and Nezamian Allegory.- 5. Wine and Identity in the Works of Nezami and Rudaki.- 6. Nezamian Pictorial Allegory in Layli o Majnun.- 7. In Search of Religion and Dantean Moments in "The Story of Mahan".- 8. Sublime Metier, Literary Techniques, and Allegory.