Examines ʿAttar's didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective

Austin O'Malley is the Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, and his dissertation was cited as an honorable mention by the Foundation for Iranian Studies. His work has appeared in Iranian Studies, Journal of Persianate Studies, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā The Journal of Middle East Medievalists and Encyclopaedia Iranica.