Alireza Korangy has been Assistant Professor of Classical Persian and Contemporary Iranian Linguistics at the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2007 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent books include Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani's Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (2013) and an edited volume, Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016). Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings (2015) and has published in the Journal of Arabic Literature; Women's Studies International Forum; and Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. She is co-editor of "Queer Affects" a special issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.Michael C. Beard is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota. He is co-editor of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and is editor for the monograph series Middle East Literature in Translation. He publishes frequently on Arabic and Persian literatures, as well as translating works of literature. He has won the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDangerous LoveSarah Bin Tyeer (University of London/SOAS)Writing to the End of Love: Wah?d and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-R?m?…………………………………………………………………………………………………Asaad al-Saleh (Indiana University) Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Benjamin Koerber (Rutgers University)The Seduction of Fayr?z Ba?r?: The Affective Dimensions of Cultural Politics in Gam?l al-Gh???n?’s ?ik?y?t al-Khab?’a (2002)…………………………………………………………………… Divine LoveAli-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Leiden University)Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings……………………………………………………………………………………………Miral Mahgoub (Arizona State University)Reverence for the Beloved as a Religious Metaphor: A Study of Raj?’a ‘?lim’s ?ubb? (The Beloved)…………………………………………………………………………………………Gender and LoveDylan Oehler-Stricklin (Washington University in St. Louis)Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of Fur?gh Farrukhz?d…………………………………………………………………………………………Richard Serrano (Rutgers University)“Making Love through Scholarship in Jam?l Buthayna”………………………………………………………………………………………….Domenico Ingenito (University of California Los Angeles)Jah?n Malik Kh?t?n: Gender, Canon and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess……………………………………………………………………………………………Erotic LovePernilla Myrne (University of Gothenburg)Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic Compendium……..………………………………………………………………………………Paul Sprachman (Rutgers University)Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltan’s Revolution Street................................................................................................................................................... Christine Kalleney (Franklin and Marshal College) Tempting the Theologian: The “Cure” of Wine’s Seduction………………………………………….............................................................................Dialectical LoveMehmet Karabela (Queen’s University)Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition…………………………………………………………………………………………Ahmad Obiedat (Wake Forest University)The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the “?ubb” Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies……………………………………………………………………………………….

Alireza Korangy has been Assistant Professor of Classical Persian and Contemporary Iranian Linguistics at the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2007 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent books include Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani's Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (2013) and an edited volume, Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016). Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings (2015) and has published in the Journal of Arabic Literature; Women's Studies International Forum; and Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. She is co-editor of "Queer Affects" a special issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.Michael C. Beard is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota. He is co-editor of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and is editor for the monograph series Middle East Literature in Translation. He publishes frequently on Arabic and Persian literatures, as well as translating works of literature. He has won the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDangerous LoveSarah Bin Tyeer (University of London/SOAS)Writing to the End of Love: Wah?d and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-R?m?…………………………………………………………………………………………………Asaad al-Saleh (Indiana University) Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Benjamin Koerber (Rutgers University)The Seduction of Fayr?z Ba?r?: The Affective Dimensions of Cultural Politics in Gam?l al-Gh???n?’s ?ik?y?t al-Khab?’a (2002)…………………………………………………………………… Divine LoveAli-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Leiden University)Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings……………………………………………………………………………………………Miral Mahgoub (Arizona State University)Reverence for the Beloved as a Religious Metaphor: A Study of Raj?’a ‘?lim’s ?ubb? (The Beloved)…………………………………………………………………………………………Gender and LoveDylan Oehler-Stricklin (Washington University in St. Louis)Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of Fur?gh Farrukhz?d…………………………………………………………………………………………Richard Serrano (Rutgers University)“Making Love through Scholarship in Jam?l Buthayna”………………………………………………………………………………………….Domenico Ingenito (University of California Los Angeles)Jah?n Malik Kh?t?n: Gender, Canon and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess……………………………………………………………………………………………Erotic LovePernilla Myrne (University of Gothenburg)Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic Compendium……..………………………………………………………………………………Paul Sprachman (Rutgers University)Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltan’s Revolution Street................................................................................................................................................... Christine Kalleney (Franklin and Marshal College) Tempting the Theologian: The “Cure” of Wine’s Seduction………………………………………….............................................................................Dialectical LoveMehmet Karabela (Queen’s University)Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition…………………………………………………………………………………………Ahmad Obiedat (Wake Forest University)The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the “?ubb” Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies……………………………………………………………………………………….

Alireza Korangy has been Assistant Professor of Classical Persian and Contemporary Iranian Linguistics at the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2007 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent books include Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani's Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (2013) and an edited volume, Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy (2016). Hanadi Al-Samman is an associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Anxiety of Erasure: Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings (2015) and has published in the Journal of Arabic Literature; Women's Studies International Forum; and Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics. She is co-editor of "Queer Affects" a special issue of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.Michael C. Beard is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota. He is co-editor of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and is editor for the monograph series Middle East Literature in Translation. He publishes frequently on Arabic and Persian literatures, as well as translating works of literature. He has won the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.

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• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDangerous LoveSarah Bin Tyeer (University of London/SOAS)Writing to the End of Love: Wah?d and the Motif Extremes of Ibn al-R?m?…………………………………………………………………………………………………Asaad al-Saleh (Indiana University) Sexual Displacement in Season of Migration to the North………………………………………………………………………………………………………...Benjamin Koerber (Rutgers University)The Seduction of Fayr?z Ba?r?: The Affective Dimensions of Cultural Politics in Gam?l al-Gh???n?’s ?ik?y?t al-Khab?’a (2002)…………………………………………………………………… Divine LoveAli-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Leiden University)Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings……………………………………………………………………………………………Miral Mahgoub (Arizona State University)Reverence for the Beloved as a Religious Metaphor: A Study of Raj?’a ‘?lim’s ?ubb? (The Beloved)…………………………………………………………………………………………Gender and LoveDylan Oehler-Stricklin (Washington University in St. Louis)Individualism and the Beloved in the Poetry of Fur?gh Farrukhz?d…………………………………………………………………………………………Richard Serrano (Rutgers University)“Making Love through Scholarship in Jam?l Buthayna”………………………………………………………………………………………….Domenico Ingenito (University of California Los Angeles)Jah?n Malik Kh?t?n: Gender, Canon and Persona in the Poems of a Premodern Persian Princess……………………………………………………………………………………………Erotic LovePernilla Myrne (University of Gothenburg)Pleasing the Beloved: Sex and True Love in a Medieval Arabic Erotic Compendium……..………………………………………………………………………………Paul Sprachman (Rutgers University)Love and Lust in the Early Islamic Republic: Amir Hassan Cheheltan’s Revolution Street................................................................................................................................................... Christine Kalleney (Franklin and Marshal College) Tempting the Theologian: The “Cure” of Wine’s Seduction………………………………………….............................................................................Dialectical LoveMehmet Karabela (Queen’s University)Lovers in the Age of the Beloveds: Classical Ottoman Divan Literature and the Dialectical Tradition…………………………………………………………………………………………Ahmad Obiedat (Wake Forest University)The Semantic Field of Love in Classical Arabic: Understanding the Subconscious Meaning Preserved in the “?ubb” Synonyms and Antonyms through Their Etymologies……………………………………………………………………………………….