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No more orientalist translations.

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Sufi teachers from Turkey, Iran, and South Asia will guide us.

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Improve your Persian

The class is bi-lingual, but if you know Persian, you will improve.

Revive an Ottoman tradition

For centuries Ottoman citizens gathered to read the Masnavi very week.

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Course curriculum

What we have covered so far

  1. Book 1, Class 1 - Introduction

  2. Book 1, Class 2 - Nay-Nama Reading

  3. Book 1, Class 3 - Nay-Nama Exegesis Part 1

  4. Book 1, Class 4 - Nay Nama Reading Part 2

  5. Book 1, Class 5 - Nay Nama Exegesis Part 2

  6. Book 1, Class 6 - King and the Slave Girl, Part 1

  • 116 lessons
  • 111 hours of video content

Meet your teacher

Muhammad Ali Mojaradi

Founder, Instructor, Translator

From Detroit, Michigan with roots in Tehran, Iran, Muhammad Ali (@sharghzadeh) founded Persian Poetics in 2018. He has been teaching classical Persian literature for four years. His first book, “The Flame of Love” (Simon & Schuster) is forthcoming.

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