May your journey be blessed, but you and friendship, for God's sake When you have safely passed through this desert of terror, Convey my message of friendship to the blossoms, to the rain.
Life and Thought
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (pen name M. Sereshk) is a poet, literary scholar, and distinguished professor at the University of Tehran. Born in 1939 in Kadkan, he works in the fields of contemporary poetry, literary criticism, and the critical edition of mystical texts.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures36 titles
Whispers
Night Reading
In the Language of Berg
In the Gardens of Nishapur
The Scent of the Moulian Stream
On Being and Singing
Like a Tree in the Rainy Night
The Second Millennium of the Mountain Deer
A Child Called Joy
Rubaiyat from Nishapur
A Letter to the Sky
Imagery in Persian Poetry
The Music of Poetry
Periods of Persian Poetry from the Constitutional Revolution to the Fall of the Monarchy
The Social Context of Persian Poetry
With Lamp and Mirror: In Search of the Roots of the Transformation of Contemporary Iranian Poetry
Resurrection of Words: Lectures on the Theory of Russian Formalism
Poet of Mirrors: A Study of the Indian Style and the Poetry of Bidel Dehlavi
The Bankrupt Alchemist: On the Poetry of Anvari
The Whips of the Wayfaring: On Sanai's Qasidas
In the Realm of Light: An Interpretation of Several Ghazals of Hakim Sanai
The Language of Poetry in Sufi Prose
Qalandariyya in History
States and Stations of M. Omid; Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
Asrar al-Tawhid (The Secrets of Unity)
The History of Nishapur
Mokhtarnameh
The Book of Affliction
The Conference of the Birds
The Book of Secrets
The Divine Book
Tazkirat al-Awliya
The States and Sayings of Abu Sa'id
Hatami's Stations
The Mysteries of Asadi in the Psalms of David
The Customs of the Dar al-Khilafa
