Alan Williams, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion

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• 2017

  Blindness in the Masnavi of Jalaloddin Rumi

  Williams, A., 1 Nov 2017, Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and The Next in Religious Belief and Practice. Williams, A. & Hintze, A. (eds.). 1 ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz , p. 279-294 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Rumi 100%
  • Mystic 28%
  • Prophecy 28%
  • Metaphor 28%
  • Metaphors 28%
• 2015

  ‘Purity and Pollution / The Body’

  Williams, A. V., 1 May 2015, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. 1 ed. Malden MA, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, p. 345-361

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• 2014

  Open Heart Surgery: The Operation of Love in Rumi's Mathnawi

  Williams, A. & Lewisohn, L. (ed.), Aug 2014, The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition. Bloomington, Indiana, USA: World Wisdom , p. 199-227 29 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Rumi’s Spiritual Ornithology

  Williams, A. & Lewisohn, L. (ed.), Apr 2014, Mawlana Rumi Review V. London: Archetype, Vol. V. p. 171-179 9 p.

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• 2013

  Looking Back to the Present: The Persian Qesseh-ye Sanjan as Living Memory

  Williams, A. & Stewart, S. (ed.), Oct 2013, The Eerlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination. London: I.B. Tauris, p. 50-57 8 p.

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• Narrative Structure and Polyphonic Discourse in the Masnavi

  Williams, A. & Lewisohn, L. (ed.), Apr 2013, Mawlana Rumi Review IV. London: Archetype, Vol. IV. p. 50-83 34 p.

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• The Story of Moses and the Shepherd

  Williams, A. & Lewisohn, L. (ed.), 2013, Mawlana Review IV. London: Archetype, Vol. IV. p. 162-166 5 p.

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• 2012

  Authority and Identity in the Pahlavi Books

  Williams, A., Herzig, E. (ed.) & Stewart, S. (ed.), Jan 2012, Early Islamic Iran: The Idea of Iran, Volume 5. 1 ed. London & New York: Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Vol. 5. p. 139-152 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2005

  Lexicography And Zoroastrian Meanings In The Pahlavi Books

  Williams, A., Cereti, C. G. (ed.) & Maggi, M. (ed.), 2005, Orientalia Romana 8. Middle Iranian Lexicography: The Vocabulary of Middle Iranian Languages (Proceedings of the Conference held in Rome, 9-11 April 2001). Instituto Italiano per l'Africa et l'Oriente

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• 2004

  New Approaches to the Problem of Translation in the Study of Religion

  Williams, A., Antes, P. (ed.), Geertz, A. W. (ed.) & Warne, R. R. (ed.), 2004, New Approaches to the Study of Religion, Religion and Reason Series No. 43, Vol 2. de Gruyter, Walter GmbH & Co

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• 2003

  The Zoroastrian Qesse-ye Sanjan and Judah Halevi's 'aliya to Eretz Israel: Reflections on Two Contrasting Journeys in Faith.

  Williams, A. & Institute, B-Z. (ed.), 2003, Irano Judaica V. Yad Ben Zvi

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• 1999

  Speaking of Purity: When a Zoroastrian Priest first met a Hindu Rajah

  Williams, A. & Sørensen, J. P. (ed.), Jul 1999, Comparative Studies in the History of Religions, Xth Anniversary Volume,. Copenhagen: Danish Association for the Study of Religion, p. 139-151 13 p.

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• 1997

  Later Zoroastrianism

  Williams, A., 1997, Companion Encyclopaedia of Asian Philosophy. London

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• Zoroastrianism and the Body

  Williams, A., 1997, Religion and the Body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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• 1994

  Zoroastrian and Jewish Purity Laws: Reflections on the Viability of a Sociological Interpretation

  Williams, A., 1994, Irano-Judaica III. Jerusalem, Israel

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• 1985

  A strange account of the world's origin

  Williams, A., 1985, Papers in honour of Professor Mary Boyce. 2.. Leiden: Brill , (Acta Iranica. Deuxième série, Hommages et opera minora; vol. 11, no. 25).

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