<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear colleagues and friends,</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I hope my message finds you and your beloved ones in the
best health. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I am writing to update you regarding the above special issue.
The special issue is finally out with page numbers. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-024-00339-w">https://link.springer.com/article/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"><span style="font-size:11pt">It contains 11 excellent papers that open the door to fresh
perspectives on multilingualism in the premodern Islamic World(s), a topic that
was overlooked or neglected for a long time for political and cultural reasons.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I must offer <span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)">This volume
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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Here is the link to its papers, and I am attaching the introduction
for your reference: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Hany Rashwan's 'introduction: beyond arabic in premodern
islamic worlds'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Federico Salvaggio's 'multilingualism from the perspective
of the medieval islamic vision of language'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Alaaeldin Mahmoud's 'multilingual poetics in arabic and
persian maqāmāt: between al-taṣannu‘ and sabk'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Rama Alhabian's 'multilingual worlds in ḥarīrī’s
monolingual maqāmāt: a study of al-maqāma ar-raqṭāʾ (the spotted)'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Shahrouz Khanjari's '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 class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- David Torollo's 'arabic lore as an inspiration for
medieval provençal jews: the curious case of mishle ha-‘arav'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Nicola Carpentieri's 'love poetry as social practice: on
the function of medieval sicilian love lyric in arabic and italian'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Aqsa Ijaz's 'beyond imitation: a case for the hermenutic
agency of persianate literary retellings'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Berat Açıl's 'portraying multilingualism in ottoman
literary culture: qasidat al-burdah translations in ornamented manuscripts'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh's 'multimedia, agency, and
subjectivity: rumi, ‘aṭṭār, and hegel’s orientalist sublime'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">- Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam and Simi Najuma Salim's 'persianate
malabar: muḥammad shāh’s takiyya and the composition of an arabi-malayalam sufi
romance-mathnawī in southern India'</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If you want to know more about the image of the special
issue cover and qasidat al-burdah, I recommend the excellent paper by Berat
Acil </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%">Thank you all for your encouragement and support—this publication<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)"> </span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">would not have been possible without this wonderful community. I hope
you enjoy exploring this collection as much as we did bringing it to life! </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)">All my very best wishes </span><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77)">Hany </span></span></font></p><br clear="all"></div><div><br></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>