Jāmī in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Jāmī’s Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practices emerges as well as questions surrounding authorship and authority in the making of vernacular cultures. Specialists of Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, Malay, Pashto, Sanskrit, Urdu, Turkish, and Bengali thus provide a unique connected account of the conception and reception of Jāmī’s works throughout the Eurasian continent and maritime Southeast Asia.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Thibaut d’Hubert and Alexandre Papas Part 1: The Routes of Books 1 A Case of Literary Success The Spread of Jāmī’s Poetical Works throughout the Near East  Francis Richard 2 Approaching Jāmī through Visual Culture The Popularization of Yūsuf-Zulaykhā in Persianate Societies  Sunil Sharma 3 Jāmī and the Ottomans  Hamid Algar 4 Scholar, Saint, and Poet Jāmī in the Indo-Muslim World  Muzaffar Alam 5 The Arab Reception of Jāmī in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries al-Fawāʾid al-ḍiyāʾiyya and al-Durra al-fākhira  Florian Schwarz 6 Nūr al-dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī in Sufi Writings in Malay  Mohamad Nasrin Nasir Part 2: Translating Islam and Sufism 7 Before the Safavid-Ottoman Conflict Jāmī and Sectarianism in Timurid Iran and Iraq  Sajjad H. Rizvi 8 Trading Pearls for Beads Jāmī’s Qaṣīdas in Praise of Sulṭān Yaʿqūb and their Significance to Āq Quyūnlū History  Chad Lingwood 9 ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī and the Ottoman Linguistic Tradition Philosophy of Language and ʿIlm al-Waḍʿ  Ertuğrul Ökten 10 Jāmī’s Statement on the Authorship of the Anīs al-ṭālibīn  Alexey Khismatulin 11 Jāmī’s Sharḥ-i rubāʿiyyāt dar vaḥdat-i vujūd Merging Akbarian Doctrine, Naqshbandī Practice, and Persian Mystical Quatrain  Eve Feuillebois 12 The Recreation of Jāmī’s Lavāʾiḥ by Ḥamza Fanṣūrī  Paul Wormser 13 Individual Sanctity and Islamization in the Ṭabaqāt Books of Jāmī, Navāʾī, Lāmiʿī, and Some Others  Alexandre Papas 14 Jāmī and his Texts in China Proper  Yiming Shen Part 3: Beyond the Seal of the Poets 15 To Round and Rondeau the Canon Jāmī and Fānī’s Reception of the Persian Lyrical Tradition  Franklin Lewis 16 “Utterly Fluent, but Seldom Fresh” Jāmī’s Reception among the Safavids  Paul Losensky 17 Evaluating Jāmī’s Influence on Navā’ī The Case Studies of the Khiradnāma-yi iskandarī and the Sadd-i iskandarī  Marc Toutant 18 Foundational Maḥabbat-nāmas Jāmī’s Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Bengal (ca. 16th–19th AD)  Thibaut d’Hubert 19 Love’s New Pavilions Śāhā Mohāmmad Chagīr’s Retelling of Yūsuf va Zulaykhā in Early Modern Bengal  Ayesha Irani 20 Śrīvara’s Kathākautuka Cosmology, Translation, and the Life of a Text in Sultanate Kashmir  Luther Obrock 21 A Bounty of Gems Yūsuf u Zulaykhā in Pashto  Ryan Perkins 22 Sweetening the Heavy Georgian Tongue Jāmī in the Georgian-Persianate Ecumene  Rebecca Gould Index of Names and Places Index of Works