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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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.…
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 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…