<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#20124d"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear friends and colleagues,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I hope this message finds you and your loved ones in good
health.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am excited to announce the upcoming release of a special
issue I edited, titled “Beyond Arabic: Multilingual Poetics in Premodern
Islamic Worlds,” published by Postmedieval journal, through Springer Nature.
This issue, featuring 11 articles, has been a two-year journey and will be
available next week.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I extend my heartfelt thanks to the editors-in-chief of
Postmedieval—Shazia Jagot, Sara Ritchey, Julie Orlemanski, Rebecca De Souza,
and Jason Jacobs—for their invaluable support and insightful reviews of the
initial drafts. Special thanks as well to the managing editor, Beatrice
Bottomley. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This issue would not have been possible without the
outstanding reviewers, each of whom provided constructive feedback that significantly
elevated the quality of these papers. My gratitude goes out to Ross Brann,
Cameron Cross, Natalia Chalisova, Ferenc Csirkés, Nino Dolidze, William
Granara, Nile Green, Miranda Hickman, Murat Umut Inan, Selim S. Kuru, Karla
Mallette, David Larsen, Luca Patrizi, Maurice Pomerantz, Omid Safi, Mohammad
Salama, Sunil Sharma, Mahdi Tourage, Torsten Tschacher, and Tyler Williams.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This volume is dedicated to Rebecca Ruth Gould (SOAS), who
has broadened my perspective on premodern Islamic multilingualism and encouraged
me to step beyond my academic comfort zone.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span dir="LTR" style="font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-size:11pt">Articles and their titles
in this special issue:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Federico Salvaggio:
"Multilingualism from the perspective of the medieval Islamic vision of
language"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Alaaeldin Mahmoud:
"Multilingual poetics in Arabic and Persian Maqāmāt: Between al-taṣannu‘
and sabk"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Rama Alhabian:
"Multilingual worlds in Ḥarīrī’s monolingual maqāmāt: A study of al-maqāma
ar-Raqṭāʾ (the spotted)"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Shahrouz Khanjari:
"Cases of divergence between Persian and Arabic poetics: An analysis of
the underlying characteristics of particularly Persian stylistic techniques
addressed by Vaṭvāṭ (d.1182)"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>David Torollo: "Arabic
lore as an inspiration for medieval Provençal Jews: The curious case of Mishle
ha-‘arav"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Nicola Carpentieri:
"Love poetry as social practice: On the function of medieval Sicilian love
lyric in Arabic and Italian"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Aqsa Ijaz: "Beyond
imitation: A case for the hermeneutic agency of Persianate literary
retellings"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Berat Açıl:
"Portraying multilingualism in Ottoman literary culture: Qasidat al-burdah
translations in ornamented manuscripts"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh:
"Multimedia, Agency, and Subjectivity: Rumi, ‘Aṭṭār, and Hegel’s
Orientalist Sublime"</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam and Simi
K. Salim: "Persianate Malabar: Muhammad Shah’s Takiyya and the Composition
of an Awadhi Sufi Romance-Mathnawī in South India"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I’m including a link to the special issue’s introduction,
which explores Arabocentricism and the teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.
Please find it attached, and here is the link: </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Rashwan, H. Editor’s introduction: Beyond Arabic in premodern Islamic worlds. </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Postmedieval</i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Merriweather Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> (2024). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w</a></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w#citeas" target="_blank" style="font-size:11pt;color:blue">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w#citeas</a><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like any
articles, and I’ll be glad to share them once they’re published.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wishing you all the best in health, success, and happiness.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hany </p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Best wishes, </font></p><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Dr Hany Rashwan</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature</font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) <font size="2"><br></font></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Honorary Research Fellow <br></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music<br></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">University of Birmingham (UoB) </font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d"><a href="https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/HanyRashwan" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-align:start" target="_blank">https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/HanyRashwan</a><br></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d"><a href="https://bham.academia.edu/HanyRashwan" target="_blank">https://bham.academia.edu/HanyRashwan</a><br></font></p><p style="text-align:justify"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS)<br></font></p><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">Languages & Cultures Faculty</font></p></div><div><p><font size="2" face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)<br>University of London</font></p></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#20124d">SOAS, University of London, is a world-leading higher education institution specializing in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It has a unique focus combining both disciplinary and regional expertise with language scholarship. Founded in 1916, with its first students enrolled in 1917, the School celebrated its Centenary in 2016-17.</font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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