James F White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James F White |
| GIVEN NAMES | James F |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3385-6134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Glory of the Artichoke”: The Gastronomic Lyrics of Busḥāq-i Aṭʿima (d. ca. 827/1423) between Authorial Intention and Reader Response
Most medieval Persian lyric poems, or ghazals, combine brevity of form with dense and allusive language to meditate on love, one of the most multifaceted of human experiences. Concision and complexity — particularly in an environment where desire for another person and longing for the divine were not considered incompatible — placed the burden of interpretation on communities of readers and auditors. Mutability of signification made the ghazal in…
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry By Domenico Ingenito
One of the most celebrated authors of medieval Iran, Saʿdī Shīrāzī (d. 691/1292) is best known to many for his Gulistān (The Rose Garden), a prosimetrum that meditates on how the individual can navigate a path through political, spiritual and romantic relationships, and face mortality with grace. After its release in 656/1258, the Gulistān began to be fêted for its eloquence and the ethical ideas that it was perceived to espouse, to the extent th…
Textual Culture Between India and Iran: The Reproduction of Verse in Nasrabadi’s Biographical Anthology
Until now, the textual history of the poetry transmitted in Persian literary anthologies has solely been the concern of editors preparing works for print publication. This article contends that an investigation of variance is also of relevance for writing the cultural history of how anthologists encountered, manipulated, and published poems in the manuscript age. While a shortage of independent textual witnesses makes it harder to undertake this …
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov
In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and his conflict with Lenin, which lasted into Soviet times. \n \nThe book examines in some detail Bogdanov’s intellectual …
Reading In, Looking Out: Hermeneutics by Implication in an Early Fifteenth-Century Anthology
This article investigates aspects of mise-en-page in British Library Add. MS. 27261, an anthology of twenty-three texts on mixed subjects produced for Eskandar Soltān (d. 818/1415), grandson of Timur and self-styled ruler of territories in southern Iran during the early fifteenth century. It examines the juxtaposition of literary and scientific texts together with images in Add. MS. 27261, and explores the correlations that these juxtapositions c…
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet
Using newly discovered materials, this article introduces readers to the career and poetry of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a now forgotten poet who was connected to many prominent political and literary figures in India during the eighteenth century. The primary source for the research is John Rylands Library, Persian MS. 219, a holograph copy of the poet’s divān, which he presented to John Macpherson, acting Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort …
Satire in the Paintings of “Mohammad-e Siāh Qalam”
A considerable amount of scholarship has been produced on just over sixty paintings of humans and demons, many of which bear ascriptions to the unidentified artist Mohammad-e Siāh Qalam, and which are now mostly housed in albums H.2153 and H.2160 in the Topkapı Palace Library. Although methods of formal comparison have led to general agreement that the paintings can be dated to either the fourteenth century or the fifteenth, strikingly little att…
A Sign of the End Time: ‘The Monastery’, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi H.2153 f.131b
Studies of visual culture in the Persian-speaking world of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries frequently discuss the literary contexts in which painting was often produced, yet scant attention has been paid to understanding how the visual can engage with the verbal beyond representing a sequential narrative. Arguing that paintings and literary texts are autonomous, yet can engage with similar ideas, this article focuses on a painting in the a…
Irina Paert, Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy
Propaganda: Can a Word Decide a War
T wo years ago, the Lincoln Group, a government contractor, sold un- attributed pro-United States stories to Iraqi newspapers in an effort to win the war of ideas and counter negative images of the US-led coalition. The mainstream American press, members of Congress, and other government leaders immediately and loudly condemned these actions as "propaganda" and contrary to the democratic ideals of a free press. 1 A Pentagon investigation, however…
Forgetting and Remembering the Saints
How to Bathe
Coming Together in Christ's Name
Writing the History of English Worship: The Achievement of Horton Davies
These are days of small books and single volumes. Multi-volume sets are a rare and endangered species. The completion of Horton Davies's five-volume set on Worship and Theology In England is a major achievement in our age, and an uprecedented one in any age. Never before has the worship life of an entire people for four and one-third centuries received such a balanced and careful scrutiny. Over fifteen years of research have borne plentiful and r…
History of Christianity
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY The Secular Use of Church Buildings. By J. G. DAVIES. New York Seabury Press, 1968. xiii+305 pages. 16 plates. $5.95. JAMES F. WHITE JAMES F. WHITE Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, June 1970, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXVIII.2.212 Published: 01 June 1970
A Good Word for William Dowsing
The Cambridge Camden Society and the Medieval Revival in the Church of England During the Nineteenth Century
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Intensive German at Yale
The Cambridge Camden Society and the Medieval Revival in the Church of England During the Nineteenth Century
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A Good Word for William Dowsing
History of Christianity
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY The Secular Use of Church Buildings. By J. G. DAVIES. New York Seabury Press, 1968. xiii+305 pages. 16 plates. $5.95. JAMES F. WHITE JAMES F. WHITE Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, June 1970, Pages 212–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXVIII.2.212 Published: 01 June 1970
Writing the History of English Worship: The Achievement of Horton Davies
These are days of small books and single volumes. Multi-volume sets are a rare and endangered species. The completion of Horton Davies's five-volume set on Worship and Theology In England is a major achievement in our age, and an uprecedented one in any age. Never before has the worship life of an entire people for four and one-third centuries received such a balanced and careful scrutiny. Over fifteen years of research have borne plentiful and r…
Coming Together in Christ's Name
How to Bathe
Forgetting and Remembering the Saints
Propaganda: Can a Word Decide a War
T wo years ago, the Lincoln Group, a government contractor, sold un- attributed pro-United States stories to Iraqi newspapers in an effort to win the war of ideas and counter negative images of the US-led coalition. The mainstream American press, members of Congress, and other government leaders immediately and loudly condemned these actions as "propaganda" and contrary to the democratic ideals of a free press. 1 A Pentagon investigation, however…
Irina Paert, Spiritual Elders: Charisma and Tradition in Russian Orthodoxy
Satire in the Paintings of “Mohammad-e Siāh Qalam”
A considerable amount of scholarship has been produced on just over sixty paintings of humans and demons, many of which bear ascriptions to the unidentified artist Mohammad-e Siāh Qalam, and which are now mostly housed in albums H.2153 and H.2160 in the Topkapı Palace Library. Although methods of formal comparison have led to general agreement that the paintings can be dated to either the fourteenth century or the fifteenth, strikingly little att…
A Sign of the End Time: ‘The Monastery’, Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi H.2153 f.131b
Studies of visual culture in the Persian-speaking world of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries frequently discuss the literary contexts in which painting was often produced, yet scant attention has been paid to understanding how the visual can engage with the verbal beyond representing a sequential narrative. Arguing that paintings and literary texts are autonomous, yet can engage with similar ideas, this article focuses on a painting in the a…
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov
In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and his conflict with Lenin, which lasted into Soviet times. \n \nThe book examines in some detail Bogdanov’s intellectual …
Reading In, Looking Out: Hermeneutics by Implication in an Early Fifteenth-Century Anthology
This article investigates aspects of mise-en-page in British Library Add. MS. 27261, an anthology of twenty-three texts on mixed subjects produced for Eskandar Soltān (d. 818/1415), grandson of Timur and self-styled ruler of territories in southern Iran during the early fifteenth century. It examines the juxtaposition of literary and scientific texts together with images in Add. MS. 27261, and explores the correlations that these juxtapositions c…
On the Road: The Life and Verse of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a Forgotten Eighteenth-Century Poet
Using newly discovered materials, this article introduces readers to the career and poetry of Mir Zeyn al-Din ʿEshq, a now forgotten poet who was connected to many prominent political and literary figures in India during the eighteenth century. The primary source for the research is John Rylands Library, Persian MS. 219, a holograph copy of the poet’s divān, which he presented to John Macpherson, acting Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort …
Textual Culture Between India and Iran: The Reproduction of Verse in Nasrabadi’s Biographical Anthology
Until now, the textual history of the poetry transmitted in Persian literary anthologies has solely been the concern of editors preparing works for print publication. This article contends that an investigation of variance is also of relevance for writing the cultural history of how anthologists encountered, manipulated, and published poems in the manuscript age. While a shortage of independent textual witnesses makes it harder to undertake this …
Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry By Domenico Ingenito
One of the most celebrated authors of medieval Iran, Saʿdī Shīrāzī (d. 691/1292) is best known to many for his Gulistān (The Rose Garden), a prosimetrum that meditates on how the individual can navigate a path through political, spiritual and romantic relationships, and face mortality with grace. After its release in 656/1258, the Gulistān began to be fêted for its eloquence and the ethical ideas that it was perceived to espouse, to the extent th…
The Glory of the Artichoke”: The Gastronomic Lyrics of Busḥāq-i Aṭʿima (d. ca. 827/1423) between Authorial Intention and Reader Response
Most medieval Persian lyric poems, or ghazals, combine brevity of form with dense and allusive language to meditate on love, one of the most multifaceted of human experiences. Concision and complexity — particularly in an environment where desire for another person and longing for the divine were not considered incompatible — placed the burden of interpretation on communities of readers and auditors. Mutability of signification made the ghazal in…
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