Alexander Jabbari

ajab@umn.edu

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

220N Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

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I am a literary historian interested in the literature, history, and philology of the Middle East and South Asia. My research spans a number of languages and textual traditions such as Persian, Arabic, and Urdu.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

PhD: Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
MA: Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
BA: Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Specialties

Persianate world
literary history
philology
Persian and Urdu literatures
language

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Publications

Jabbari, Alexander. The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Jabbari, Alexander. "Race Against Time: Racial Temporality and Sexuality in Modern Iran." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (forthcoming).
Jabbari, Alexander. "The Sound of Persianate Modernity: Gendered Soundscapes in Modern Iran." Philological Encounters 8:2-3 (2023): 121-149.
Jabbari, Alexander, Maryam Fatima, Mehtap Ozdemir. "The Late Persianate World: Transregional Connections and the Question of Language." Philological Encounters 8:2-3 : 111-120.
Jabbari, Alexander. "The Introduction to Mohammad-Taqi Bahār’s Sabkshenāsi: A Translation." Journal of Persianate Studies 15 (2022): 257-280.
Jabbari, Alexander. "From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity: Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan." Iranian Studies 55:3 : 611-630.
Jabbari, Alexander. "Sa‘di’s Gulistan in British India: A Provocation." The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022): 131-142.
Jabbari, Alexander, Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai. "Sinicizing Islam: Translating the Gulistan of Sa‘di in Modern China." International Journal of Islam in Asia 1(1) (2020): 6-26.
Jabbari, Alexander. "The Making of Modernity in Persianate Literary History." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36(3) (2016): 418-434.

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