Spring '25 Sufism as World Literature

Sufism has long appealed to many literary traditions and informed multiple aesthetic projects around the globe-evolving in significance as it circulated through translation. This course offers an introduction to Sufism as world literature. It explores its universal appeal (in such languages as Arabic English, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Urdu Etc.) and its many aesthetic manifestations and transformations around the world. In addition to the thematic, the course offers an extensive and diverse (but not exhaustive) survey of Sufism's impact on literary genres.