| The preparation of a digital corpus of the classical Persian poet’s works along with commentaries helped answer crucial questions largely neglected by Islamic historiography. |
This one-year project aimed to develop a long-term research agenda capable of approaching transformative intellectual trends in the postclassical Muslim tradition by studying the reception of the works of polymath ’Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-1492), one of the most widely read authors in the Eurasian continent between his lifetime and the early modern period. Ambitious in its theoretical aims and grounded in creative philological approaches, this project endeavored to provide answers to crucial questions largely neglected by Islamic historiography. UChicago faculty and visiting scholars refined a long-term agenda and prepared a digital collection and searchable corpus of Unicode texts comprising Jami’s works along with the Indian commentaries published by Naval Kishore in the 19th century.
Associate Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Research Fellow
Centre nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
