Rūmī and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism
Biographical note
Mahdi Tourage, Ph.D. (2005), University of Toronto, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Islam at Colgate University, NY. His scholarly work has appeared in Iranian Studies and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
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