“Father of Songs: Rudaki and His Poetry”
Sassan Tabatabai, Boston University, The Core Curriculum
Dr. Tabatabai read from and discussed the poetry of Rudaki, the tenth-century poet often called “the father of Persian poetry,” whose writings he translated and published in Father of Songs: Rudaki and His Poetry (Purdue University Press, 2008). Discussion touched on the presence of Islam and the older traditions of Persian Zoroastrianism in the poet’s writing.
Sassan Tabatabai, an instructor in the Boston University Core Curriculum, is a scholar of medieval Persian literature. He is also a writer, poet, translator and editor whose work has appeared in a number of publications. He is Poetry Editor of The Republic of Letters and for the past two years has acted as the faculty adviser for the Core Journal, the annual literary journal of the Core Curriculum.
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