check out these categories:
American translators
Iranologists
Poets from Tennessee
Sufi poets
University of California, Berkeley alumni
this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol
check out these categories:
American translators
Iranologists
Poets from Tennessee
Sufi poets
University of California, Berkeley alumni
this mf is a bit on Trillbilly's podcast lol
🧵 on the secularization of Rumi including examples https://nitter.net/PersianPoetics/status/1261745279860080641#m
Reminds me of how Westerners try to turn the Daodejing into this weird proto-anarchist work when it's actually fairly autocratic at places. The Ursula translation was pretty bad, especially the part where she took out a passage because it was too "Confucian."
Maybe she was worried there would be too much....Confucian