The Great Lakes Adiban hosted a two-part panel at the 2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The following papers were presented:

100. Love, Fear, Anger, Sorrow: Emotions and Diseases of the Soul in Islamicate Literature I

  • Angry Men: On Emotions and Masculinities in Samarqandī’s Sindbād-nāmeh: Alexandra V. Hoffmann, Univ. of Chicago
  • Emoting through Anecdotes; Feeling through Literature: Jonathan Lawrence, Univ. of Oxford
  • Emotion and Sanctity in Timurid Hagiography: Rubina Salikuddin, Bryn Mawr College

256. Love, Fear, Anger, Sorrow: Emotions and Diseases of the Soul in Islamicate Literature II

  • The Emotional Anatomy of Exile in Medieval Persian Poetry: The Case of Masud Sa’d Salman: Fatemeh Shams, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • Poetics of Faith and Fright, Mongol invasion in Hasan-i Mahmūd’s Diwān-i Qā’imiyyāt (1220s to 1230s): Karim Javan, Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Fear and Hope, Sorrow and Joy, Anger and Compassion: Emotional Challenges of Spiritual Path in Rumi’s Mathnawi: Amir H. Zekrgoo, Melbourne Univ.; Leyla Tajer, Help Univ.