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Iran and Persian Studies

Inner/Central Asia

Islamic Scholarly Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917

A review of The Persianate Sphere during the Age of Empires: Islamic Scholars and Networks of Exchange in Central Asia, 1747-1917, by James Robert Pic...
Asian Archaeology

DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals

DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on E...
Iran/Persian

Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism

A review of The Legendary Biographies of Nāṣir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Ismāʿīlism, by Daniel Beben. At first glan...
Diaspora/Migration

Iranians in Sweden and Canada

A review of Producing Culture, Producing Practice: Iranians in Sweden and Canada, by Amy Malek. Amy Malek’s study investigates the role of cultural pe...
European Art

Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs

A review of From the Seed of the Gods: Art, Ideology, and Cultural Exchange with the Persian Court under the Roman Tetrarchs, 284-324 CE, by...
Iran/Persian

Persianate Literary Culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries

A review of Bâzgasht-i Adabî (Literary Return) and Persianate Literary Culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Iran, India, and Afghanistan, by K...
Iran/Persian

Science and Society in Medieval Islam

A review of Science and Society in Medieval Islam: Nasir al-Din Tusi and the Politics of Patronage, by Hadi Jorati. With his extraordinary grasp of......
Iran/Persian

Experiences of the Trans-Iranian Railway

A review of Mobilizing Iran: Experiences of the Trans-Iranian Railway, 1850-1950, by Mikiya Koyagi. By undertaking the study of a largely neglected to...
Diaspora/Migration

Being Iranian in the U.S. and Germany

A review of National Narratives and Global Politics: Immigrant and Second-Generation Iranians in the U.S. and Germany, by Sahar Sadeghi. In her compar...
Iran/Persian

Persian Prison Poetry

A review of The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200, by Rebecca Gould. Rebecca Gould’s dissertation traces the Persian ...
Fresh from the Archives

The National Archives of Afghanistan

A review of the Archif-e Milli (National Archives) in Afghanistan, Kabul. The Archif-e Milli in central Kabul is the appropriate base camp for the int...
Fresh from the Archives

The Golestan Palace Library and Archive in Tehran

A review of the Golestan Palace Library and Archive in Tehran, Iran. My dissertation research focuses on the social, cultural, and spatial constructio...
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