Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry: 41 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry: 41 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry: 41 (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

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Deeply rooted in the intellectual controversies of his times, Sa‘di mobilized the arguments and the concepts of philosophers like Avicenna and theologians like Ghazali to argue that the contemplation of beauty leads us to a more direct experience of God.We were made to spend every day of our lives admiring the glorious beauty of our God as it is revealed in Christ Jesus. If you live in a noisy city, away from the tranquil serenity of nature, you can still find your daily dose of goosebumps.

It was against the backdrop of the Mongol incursions, and the fall of Baghdad in 656/1258, that Saʿdī lived, travelled and wrote. Over the past three and a half years at Bryn Mawr, I have taken about twelve albums of photographs of my friends, the school, and scenes I've seen.To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Ingenito’s reconstruction of Saʿdī’s sacred homoeroticism, his exploration of vital affinities between literature and philosophy and theorization of lyric performativity—these interventions break ample new ground within Saʿdī scholarship and Persian studies, and will be generative for Islamic studies scholars, medievalists, and literary scholars and comparatists far and wide.



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