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Franklin D. Lewis
University of Chicago
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 773-702-4504
Fax: 773-702-9853
Dept of Near Eastern Languages
University of Chicago 1155 E 58th Street
Chicago IL 60637
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Central Asian Studies
Cinema/Film
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Persian
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Central Asia
Iran
Afghanistan
Tajikistan
Specialties
Baha'i Stds
Literary Translation
Rumi
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Pahlavi (elementary)
Persian (advanced)
Sanskrit (elementary)
Education
PhD | 1995 | NE Lang/Civ | U of Chicago
BA | 1983 | NE Stds | U of Calif, Berkeley
Abstracts
Ranking the Saints: Jalal al-Din Rumi's Hagiological Hierarchy Ethical Hermeneutics and the Moral Universe of the Sh?hn?ma The Scintillating Sanā’ī, the Prickler Sūzanī and the Sexual Lexicon of Persian Poetry