Logic of The Birds Podcast

04/14/2024

Our favorite quotes of al-Hallaj from Ep 2 of the Logic of the Birds Podcast. Which is your favorite?

Available on all streaming platforms. Link in bio.

03/28/2024

Visit Logicofthebirds.com to give our first episode and listen & let us know what you think! 💭

03/28/2024

Want to learn more about Rumi?

Check out the first episode of the Logic of the Birds Podcast as Professors Fatemeh Keshavarz and James Morris reveal the profound inner meanings of his masterpieces, the Masnavi-i Ma‘navi (The Spiritual Couplets) and the Divan-i Shams.

Listen now: https://logicofthebirds.com/podcast/rumi/

03/27/2024

“To speak the same language is to share the same blood, to be related.”

Learn more about Rumi, the most famous Muslim mystic, in the 1st episode of the Logic of the Birds Podcast!
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03/27/2024

WE’RE ASKING:
Is there something unique about the kind of knowledge that poetry can cultivate and communicate? What is the role of poetry’s beauty and form in working what the Islamic tradition calls its “licit magic”?

ABOUT US:
Join us as we engage in enlightening conversations with eminent scholars and poets from around the world to explore these and other questions. Focusing on Sufi poetry, this podcast series will explore some of the great poets and poems in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Wolof, Hausa, Swahili, Panjabi, Malay, and more.

Our conversations will examine how these traditions cultivated perspectives and popular literary traditions that wedded the sensual and intellectual, the aesthetic and the ethical, the affective and rational, the logical and the spiritual, the philosophical and mystical.

Host: Professor Oludamini Ogunnaike
📍 University of Virginia
📣 Streaming on our website & Spotify.
Coming soon to iTunes, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

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03/26/2024

03/26/2024

Today marks the official launch of the Logic of the Birds Podcast!
Explore the poetry of Rumi, a famous Islamic scholar and Sufi master whose profound Persian poetry was widely-revered in our first episode.

Now available on our website, Spotify, SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, & more!

Episode 1: Rumi https://logicofthebirds.com/podcast-player/2146/rumi.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:24:27 | Recorded on March 10, 2024 Professors Fatemeh Keshavarz and James Morris explore the poetry of Rumi, a famous Islamic scholar and Sufi master whose profound Persian poetry...

10/06/2023

The art of poetry has been famously referred to by the Qur'anic term, the "language of the birds"

Solomon says in verse 27:16,

"O people, we have been taught the language of the birds, and we have been given of all things. Truly, this is the clear (mubīn) bounty!"

10/06/2023

Whoever wants to understand the poem,
must go into the land of poetry.

Whoever wants to understand the poet,
must go into the poet’s land.

~ Goethe

10/06/2023

What is poetry? The song of the bird of the intellect.
What is poetry? The similitude of the world of eternity.
~ Jami