Cyrus Ali Zargar

YouTube video by Milad Milani Episode 6 Attar and the Religion of Love with Cyrus Zargar

A great discussion about the Speech of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr) with @miladmilani. Thank you Milad!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2gu...

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Title: The Nobility of Hussain in Islamic Ethics: An Analysis of Karbala Narratives

Time: Friday, April 25, 11 AM
Location: HDS Divinity Hall, Room 211.

This is an in person event with a hybrid option. Registration is required: bit.ly/nobilityofhu...

YouTube video by Hellenic Society The Peplos Kore

Looking through our YouTube archive...have you watched Professor Carrie Vout (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge) discuss the painted cast of the Peplos Kore in the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge? #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVaL...

As a neuroscientist who studies urban stress, loud cars/motorcycles should be banned, or fined excessively until drivers reassess their need to broadcast their self esteem with unnecessary noise pollution. I don’t need to hear your car in my apartment.

YouTube video by Helen De Cruz The Blazing World (1666) by Margaret Cavendish

I made a 10-minute, richly illustrated summary of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-World (1666), a very early (some say earliest) Science Fiction novel. Please have a look and share if you like it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zi...

a reflection of your erudition and excellent work!!

You are too kind! Yes, it works for me. Also, you'll almost always either be pleasantly surprised by reviews or just learn how to do something better next time

The way I soothe myself is to remember that the fact that it's being reviewed is more important than whatever someone might say

I'm sharing my contribution to Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet Karamustafa’s lovely new volume on "mystical landscapes" in Persian literature. My article is about the famous conclusion of ʿAttar's Mantiq al-Tayr (Speech of the Birds), with new translations:

www.academia.edu/128241462/Th...

"She's not dead, is she?" Risk-Taking, Agency, & the Politics of Traumatic Memory Em Walsh (University of Central Florida)

I think I finally have to start watching "Severance." Dr. Em Walsh (UCF) sheds light on how insights from the show can help us better understand trauma survivors:

thememorypalacephil.substack.com/p/shes-not-d...

Next week’s #MondayMajlis registration link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Most people see repentance (tawba) as a sign of weakness—an admission of failure.

But in Sufism, repentance isn’t just about avoiding sin.

It’s about spiritual intelligence.

Here’s why the wisest people repent the most. 🧵👇

from an elevated perspective, we see semi-arid land, covered with trees, and, in the distance, the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Palisades about six weeks ago

Zahra Yousefi (Iranian, b. 1984). Untitled (2023, oil pastel on cardboard).

Thank you Rachel!!

YouTube video by Cyrus Zargar The Persian Poet Attar and the Place of Persianate Sufism in Contemporary Islamic Studies

How does Persian poetry fit into "Islamic studies" today?

That's just one question I discuss with Mojtaba Shahsavari (Univ. of Toronto) in what turned out to be a thought-provoking discussion:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Sj...

The planet Venus twinkles in the sky above a crescent moon, framed by palm trees and rooftops.

The Moon and Venus last night

"Letters written with ink do not really exist qua letters. For the
letters are but various forms to which meanings have been assigned through convention. What really and concretely exists is nothing but ink."

—Toshiko Izutsu, paraphrasing Sayyid Haydar Amuli, commenting on the thought of Ibn 'Arabi

I called on you,
no—
you called me to you;
so did I cry out to you,
or
did you cry out to me?

—al-Ḥallāj