Dr. Bahman Solati

Bahman Solati is a visiting scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Persian literature and comparative studies from the University of Exeter. His current research focuses on the impact of Sufism on post-Islamic Persian literature. He is the author of The Reception of Ḥ
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t of Ḥakim 'Umar Khayyam: Selected Quatrains of Khayyam Translated into Simple English with Spiritual...See more

Bahman Solati is a visiting scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Persian literature and comparative studies from the University of Exeter. His current research focuses on the impact of Sufism on post-Islamic Persian literature. He is the author of The Reception of Ḥ
feẓ (2013), Rub
'+y
t of Ḥakim 'Umar Khayyam: Selected Quatrains of Khayyam Translated into Simple English with Spiritual Interpretation (2015), and Persian Words of Wisdom: Sayings and Proverbs by Masters of Persian Poetry (2015). See less