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Key	BIB39458
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	To Dance Like Solomon : Imitation and Martyrdom in a Qajar Ghazal
Journal	Middle Eastern Literatures
Author	Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz
Year	2024
Epub date2	15 August 2024
Abstract	Iran’s neoclassical Literary Return movement (Bāzgasht-i adabī) that reached its climax in the first half of the nineteenth century has, to date, been studied almost exclusively in relation to the Qajar royal court and the elite male poets who received imperial patronage. This article examines how one of the founding mothers of the violently persecuted and socially marginalized Babi-Baha’i religious community succeeded in producing a bold, emotionally charged response to a celebrated ghazal by one of the towering figures of the Persian poetic canon, Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi. Considering herself a worthy imitator and drawing on a transhistorical chain of responses to Rumi spanning the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, this Babi-Baha’i poet refused to be excluded from the dominant literary currents of her day. Consequently, study of this unknown poet and those like her who, for far too long have been erased from modern Iran’s literary history, demands of us a broader definition of the community of Qajar poets, one that transcends social, doctrinal, and gendered lines. The focus of this essay is a ghazal by Maryam Bushru’i (1815–1902), a sister of Mulla Husayn Bushru’i (1813–1849), the first disciple of the nineteenth-century messianic figure, Sayyid 'Ali-Muhammad Shirazi the Bab (1819–1850). A fine example of a Qajar response poem (javāb), Maryam’s ghazal is modeled on two ghazals by Rumi
Language	English
Keywords	BUSHRU'I, MARYAM; POETRY; RUMI; MARTYRDOM
URL	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1475262X.2024.2383598
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2024.2383598
Pages	1–27
Legal note	11.
File attachments	internal-pdf://1411131294/Brookshaw - To dance like Solomon - MidEastLit.pdf

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