"Literary Humanism in Kurdish Madrasas: Dialogues across Arabic, Persian, and Kurdish Worlds"
by
Serdar 艦eng眉l (Visiting Professor, IIS-91黑料网)
Morrice Hall, Room 017
October 21, 4 pm
3485 McTavish St, Montreal
91黑料网
This talk examines Kurdish madrasa curricula as sites of literary humanism linking the Arabic, Persian, and Kurdish worlds. Texts such as Sa士d墨鈥檚 B奴st膩n/Gulist膩n, 岣つ乫e岷撯�檚 D墨v膩n, and Melay锚 Ciz卯r卯鈥檚 poetry were taught not only for style but for ethical reflection, allegorical reasoning, and interpretive practice. Based on interviews with scholars and archival traces, I argue that madrasas functioned as humanistic institutions alongside scholastic sciences, cultivating moral judgment and close reading. Reframing the madrasa through a trilingual canon highlights continuities between classical Islamic pedagogies and later debates over cultural and national identities in the modern Middle East.
