In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Travis Zadeh of Yale University. We discuss his book, "The Vernacular Qur'an" and explore the world of translation, especially into Persian, and vernacular prayer within the context of the early Islamic period as well as Hanafi jurisprudence.

Travis Zadeh writes and teaches on the connected histories of science, magic, and religion, as well as on law, literature, and philosophy. His areas of interest include: encyclopedism, cosmography, mythology, descriptive and sacred geography, divine writing and scripture, Arabic, Persian, and Urdu intellectual cultures, medicine and the body, the occult sciences, ethics and philosophies of wonderment, codicology and the history of the book, and comparative theories of translation, secularism, and colonialism. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in comparative literature.

Travis's Books"
Wonders and Rarities: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978...
The Vernacular Qur'an: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
Mapping Frontiers Across Medieval Islam: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mapping...

You can find more info about Dr. Zadeh here: https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/peo...