Sarmad di Kashan (XVII sec.), poeta persiano emigrato in India, dalla multipla personalità etnica, linguistica, religiosa
The article explores the intercultural and interreligious dimension of the Persian poet Sarmad of Kashan (c. 1590-1660), who was of Jewish-Armenian origin but born in Persia, later converted to Islam and finally emigrated to India. It was here, at the Mughal court, that he met the prince-philosopher...
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University of Bologna
2025-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://dive-in.unibo.it/article/view/22196 |
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| Summary: | The article explores the intercultural and interreligious dimension of the Persian poet Sarmad of Kashan (c. 1590-1660), who was of Jewish-Armenian origin but born in Persia, later converted to Islam and finally emigrated to India. It was here, at the Mughal court, that he met the prince-philosopher Dârâ Shokuh (Shikoh), who promoted a policy of tolerance and Hindu-Muslim dialogue. And it was in Delhi that Sarmad and his protector met a tragic end in the power struggle between Dârâ Shokuh and his ambitious brother Awrangzeb, who was determined to crush any openness to Hinduism and non-Muslims. Sarmad led the life of a wandering and 'irregular' Sufi (though some say he converted to Hinduism), walking around naked in the manner of renunciate ascetics or sannyasins, accompanied only by his friend Abhay Chand, a Hindu youth to whom he addressed passionate verses. He composed magnificent quatrains - on human beauty as a revelation of the divine and on his status as an unrepentant sinner - which would form a corpus of some 350 poems. His verses are also imbued with deep reflections on a theology of beauty and the decidedly unsettling idea of 'finding God in sin'. |
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| ISSN: | 2785-3233 |