Dr. A.A. (Asghar) Seyed-Gohrab

Position:
  • Senior lecturer
Expertise:
  • Persian language and literature


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2287
E-Mail: a.a.seyed-gohrab@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES APT
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4
2311 BZ Leiden
Room number 1.09b
Personal Homepage: www.persianstudies.nl


Personal website

www.persianstudies.nl

Video

Een liefdesgedicht als propganda: Poëzie en politiek in Iran

Curriculum Vitae

Chairman of the Department of Persian Language and Culture

Fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

2002- 2006
Postdoctoral researcher in NWO funded VENI-project on A History of Early Literary Riddles: the Emergence of Persian Riddle Poetry and its Impact on Poetic Diction.

2001-2002
Postdoctoral researcher, financed by NWO, as an exceptional extension of the PhD contract after completion of the thesis.

Awards:
1997      NWO ‘oio’ PhD grant
2002      NWO VENI grant

PhD 2001:
PhD at Leiden University. Supervisors Prof.Dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn / Prof.dr. J.G.J. ter Haar: A Narration of Love: an Analysis of the Twelfth Century Persian Poet Nizami’s Layli and Majnun

MA in English language and literature 1995:
‘Doctoraal’ degree English language and literature at Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam)
Main subjects: English Literature; American Literature; Bibliographi­cal Resources; Grammar; Composition; Intermedi­ate Dutch-English Translation; Oral Skills and Vocabula­ry; Discourse Analysis; Narrativity; Functional Grammar; Generative Gram­mar; Middle English; Early English Literature; Gender and Arts in the 18th century; Poetics; Shakes­peare in Western Culture; Advanced Dutch-English Translation; Advanced Oral Skills.

Title of thesis: Sa`di and English Lite­rature. VIII+140 pp.

MA in Persian language and culture 1995:
‘Doctoraal’ degree Persian language and culture at Leiden University
Main subjects: Classical Persian Literature; Modern Literatu­re; History of Literature; Independent Rea­dings II; Modern History; Cultural and Historical Texts; Islam in Iran; Persian Texts on Islam; Classical Arabic; Oral Skills; Modern Persian Literature III; Modern Persian Prose and Poetry; Islamic Texts; Islamic Mysticism; Independent Readings IV; Islamic Mysticism and Philosophy; Middle Persian (Pah­lavi).
Title of thesis Sparks of Lovers and Mysteries of the Mystics: An Essay on Ahmad Ghazali’s Sawanih and Mahmud Kashani's Kunuz al-Asrar, 86 pp.

Teaching activities

Contributions to the following BA, MA and Mphil programmes:

o       APT (Arabic, Persian and Turkish)
o       Islamic Studies
o       World religions
o       History
o       Medieval Studies 

Courses taught in the BA, MA and Mphil include:

o       Islamic Mysticism
o       Literature and politics
o       Modern Persian literature
o       Persian epic poetry
o       Classical Persian literature
o       Contemporary history
o       Translation theory
o       Iconography and Persian miniature painting
o       Reception theory
o       Text and transmission
o       Popular/folk literature

Publications

  • (January 2007) Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
  • (forthcoming, 2007) The Essence of Modernism: A Study of Mirza Yusof Khan Mostashar ad-Dowla Tabrizi's Treatise on Law (Yak Kalima), together with S. Mcglinn: Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
  • (2003) Layli and Majn‎un: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Nezāmi’s Epic Romance, Leiden / Boston: E.J. Brill.
  • (2002) The Mirror of Meanings, Translated with an introduction and glossary, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, (The parallel Persian text has been prepared by N. Pourjavady) Second edition is in preparation.

Last Modified: 23-08-2011