Th. Emil Homerin

Professor of Religion  
Ph.D. (1987), University of Chicago
Specialties: Islam, Arabic Literature and Mysticism 

430 Rush Rhees Library
Department of Religion and Classics
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627

(585) 275-4760 (office)
(585) 275-5378 (Department office)
(585) 442-2749 (fax)
theh@mail.rochester.edu

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Books:

• The Wine of Love & Life: Ibn Fârid's al-Khamrîyah and al-Qaysarîs Quest for Meaning. Chicago: Chicago Papers on the Middle East. Middle East Center, University of Chicago, 2005.
• Editor. Arabic Literature in Mamluk Domains (1250-1517). Mamlûk Studies Review 7 (2003), special thematic issue.
• 'Umar Ibn al-Fârid: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life. New York: Paulist Press, Classics of Western Spirituality Series, 2001.
• From Arab Post to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Farid, His Verse, and His Shrine. 2nd ed. with a new introduction: American University in Cairo Press, 2001. 1st ed., University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

Articles:

• "Mystical Improvisations: Ibn al-Fârid Plays al-Mutanabbî."  In Ghazal: A Genre of World Literature.  Edited by A. Neuwirth and Boerte Sagaster. Beirut: Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS).  Forthcoming.
• "Arabic Religious Poetry: 1200-1800."  In The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Post-Colonial Period.  Edited by Roger Allen and Donald Richards.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  Forthcoming.
• Ibn al-Fârid's Persoanl Dîwân."  In Le dévelopement du soufisme en Égypte à lépoque mamelouke.  Edited by Richard McGregor and Adam Sabra.  Cairo: Institut Français dArchéologie Orientale.  Forthcoming.
• "Islam& Altruism."  In Altruism in Religious Perspective.  Ed. Jacob Neusner.  Washington, D.C.  Georgetown University Press, 2005.
• "The Study of Islam in Mamluk Domains."  Mamlûk Studies Review 9:2 (2005):1-30.
• Living Love: The Mystical Writings of cÂ'ishah al-Bâcûnîyah."  Mamlûk Studies Review 7 (2003): 211-34.
• "Saving Muslim Souls: The Khanqah and the Sufi Duty in Mamluk Lands."  Mamlûk Studies Review 3 (1999): 59-83.
• "Sufis and their Detractors in Mamluk Egypt: A Survey of Protagonists and Institutional Settings."  In Islamic Mysticism Contested. Edited by Frederick De Jong and Bernd Radtke. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999, 225-46.
• "In the Gardens of az-Zahra : Love Echoes in a Poem by Ibn Zaydun." In The Shaping of an American Islamic Discourse: A Memorial to Fazlur Rahman.  Edited by Earle Waugh and Frederick M. Denny.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998, 215-32.
• "Poetry and the Study of the Medieval Middle East."  Al-'Usur Al-Wusta: The Bulletin of the Middle East Medievalists 11:1 (April, 1999): 4-5, 11.
• "Ibn al-Farid," and "Munawi's Literary Hagiography of Ibn al-Farid.”  In Windows on the House of Islam.  Edited by John Renard.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 194- 208.
• "Reflections on Arabic Poetry in the Mamluk Age."  Mamlûk Studies Review  1 (1997): 63-85.
• "Ibn al-Farid, a Saint of Mamluk and Ottoman Egypt."  In Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam. Edited by Grace Smith and Carl Ernst.  Istanbul: Isis Press, 1994, 85-94.
• "Tangled Words: Toward a Stylistics of Arabic Mystical Verse."  In Reorientation: Essays on Arabic and Persian Poetry.  Edited by S.P. Stetkevych.  University of Indiana Press, 1994, 190-98.
• "I've Stayed by the Grave: an Elegy/Nasib for Nudar."  In Festschrift for James Bellamy. Edited by M. Mir. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1993, 107-18.
• "A Bird Ascends the Night: Elegy and Immortality in Islam."  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 59 (1991) 4:247-79.
• "Preaching Poetry: The Forgotten Verse of Ibn al-Shahrazuri."  Arabica 38 (1991):87-101.
• "The Domed Shrine of Ibn al-Farid."  25 (1990): 133-38.
• "Ibn cArabi in the People's Assembly: Religion, Press, and Politics in Sadat's Egypt."  Middle East Journal 80:4 (Summer, 1986), 462-77.
• "Ibn Taymiyah's al-Sufiyah w-al-fuqara."  Arabica 32 (1985), 219-44.
• "Echoes of a Thirsty Owl: Death and Afterlife in Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry."  Journal of Near Eastern Studies 22:2 (1985), 165-84.
• "Sa di's Somnatiyah."  Iranian Studies 16:1-2 (Winter-Spring, 1983), 31-50.

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