Autor/-in: Fatemeh Keshavarz

Fatemeh Keshavarz is the Roshan Chair in Persian Studies & Director at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Keshavarz works on mystical Persian poetry and is author of five monographs including Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi. and Recite in the Name of the Red Rose: Poetic Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran. (University of South Carolina Press, 1998 & 2006). Her last monograph, Lyrics of Life: Sa'di on Love, Cosmopolitanism, and Care of the Self. was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2016.