Alireza Korangy Isfahani is an Iranian-American literary critic, philologist and linguist. He is currently faculty at the

American University of Beirut The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, aut ...

. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a Public university#United States, public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United S ...

. Korangy also taught at the

University of Colorado at Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado sys ...

. He is the editor-in-chief of the ''

International Journal of Persian Literature ''International Journal of Persian Literature (IJPL)'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering Persian poetics, poetry, classical Persian philology, prose, and the literature of Iran and the broader geographical areas. It is indexed in ...

'' and is known for his works on

Persian poetry Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

Career

Korangy is interested in classical Persian and Arabic philology with a focus on poetics, rhetoric, and linguistics. In his 2013 book, ''Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī's Contribution'', Korangy provides a detailed commentary on Khāqānī and his status in Persian ghazal development.

Rebecca Gould Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and Professor of Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Birmingham. Her academic interests are the Caucasus, Comparative Literature, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Persian li ...

admires Korangy's genealogy of Khāqānī and believes it is the most thorough genealogy of the poet's influences in any language. Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab calls Kroangy's book on Khāqānī "a valuable monograph" in which the author provides an account of the origins, developments and characteristics of ''sabk-e Khorasani'', an early Persian poetic style. Korangy is also the editor of several volumes on Islamic/Iranian philosophy, literature and linguistics, among them is a festschrift of Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani titled ''Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy''.

Books

* ''Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī's Contribution'', with a foreword by Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 2013, ISBN 9783447069557 * ''Kurdish Art and Identity'' (ed.), preface by

Philip G. Kreyenbroek Philip G. Kreyenbroek (born 1948) is a Dutch academic specialising in Iranian studies. Throughout his career, he has published several books and articles on the Zoroastrianism, Zoroastrian, Kurds, Kurdish, and Yazidis, Yazidi traditions. Educat ...

, De Gruyter 2020 * ''Persian Linguistics in Cultural Contexts'', co-editor with

Farzad Sharifian Farzad Sharifian ( fa, فرزاد شریفیان) was a pioneer of cultural linguistics and held the Chair in Cultural Linguistics at Monash University. He developed a theoretical and an analytical framework of cultural cognition, cultural con ...

, Routledge 2020 * ''Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages'', co-editor with Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, De Gruyter 2019 *''The Beloved in Middle Eastern Literatures: The Culture of Love and Languishing''. co-editor with Hanadi Al-Samman & Michael Beard, London: I.B. Tauris, 2017 *''Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy'', co-editor with Wheeler M. Thackston, Roy P. Mottahedeh and William Granara, De Gruyter 2016 * ''Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres'' (ed.), Brill 2017 * ''Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics'', co-editor with Corey Miller, De Gruyter Mouton 2018 * ''The 'Other' Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures'', co-editor with

Leyla Rouhi Leyla Rouhi is an Iranian-American literary scholar and Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. She is known for her expertise on comparative literature. Career Leyla Rouhi specializes in medieval and ...

, Harrassowitz Verlag 2019 * ''No Tapping around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.'s 70th Birthday'', co-editor with Daniel J Sheffield, Harrassowitz Verlag 2014

References

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