Julie Scott Meisami (Oxford University)

Submitted:          Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:18:13 GMT+00
 
Julie Scott Meisami 
Lecturer in Persian
University of Oxford
Oriental Institute
Pusey Lane
Oxford OX1 2LE 
England

Phones:   44-1865-278200 (OI)
          44-1865-278235 (direct)          
FAX:      44-1865-278190
Email:    meisami@server.orient.ox.ac.uk
 
Research interests: Medieval Arabic and Persian poetry and poetics
                     Medieval Arabic and Persian historiography       
                      Comparative Literature  
                      Literary translation  

Publications: Medieval Persian Court Poetry, Princeton 1987
                The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Fava'id), a 
                    Medieval Islamic Mirror for Princes (translated 
                    from the Persian), Salt Lake City 1991 
                Nizami Ganjavi, Haft Paykar (translated from the 
                    Persian), Oxford 1995
                (Many articles, book reviews, etc.)
                
Work-in-progress: The Poetics of Medieval Arabic and Persian Lyric 
                        Poetry (book)                
                    Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth
                        Century (book)
                    Nizami Ganjavi, Khusraw and Shirin (translation)   
 
  Editor, Edebiyat: The Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures