The Mad Lover: the ‘Romance’ of Layli and Majnun, Jullie Meisami, Aug 26, 2007
Dr. Julie Meisami recived her PH. D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley in 1971. She has taught at University of Tehran, Oxford University and Agha Khan Fellow in Islamic Art, Harvard University. Dr. Meisami is the author of “Medieval Persian Court Poetry” (Princeton UP, 1987), “Verse translation of Nizami Ganjavi’s Haft Paykar” (Oxford University Press, 1995), “Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature” [ed. with Paul Starkey] (London, Routledge, 1998), “Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century” (Edinburgh UP, 1999), “Structure and Meaning in Medieval Arabic and Persian Poetry” (London, Routledge Curzon, 2003), among others.
Dr. Meisami is currently working on relations between texts/poetry/images (especially involving Majnun).