LAL’s importance to comparative literature and ways of reading. Marina Warner leads discussion with Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-chin Ouyang and Matthew Reynolds. Focus on The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volumes One and Two by Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, edited and translated by Geert Jan Van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler; and The Principles of Sufism by ʿĀʾishah al-Bāʿūnīyah, edited and translated by Th. Emil Homerin.