Persian Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli

Please join us for a presentation by Professor Carl Ernst, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill. Ruzbihan Baqli was a Persian Sufi poet, born in Pasa and buried in Shiraz and best known for his ecstatic and visionary life and his writings on Sufi expression of ecstasy (shath). His works in Arabic and Persian cover Quranic commentary, poetry, theology, jurisprudence, and grammar.