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The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar

The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar

The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar with Maziar Behrooz   After a difficult century of civil wars and foreign intervention, population loss and economic contraction, Iran was finally reunified under the Qajar and the unique...

Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination

Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination

Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones   To coincide with the British Museum’s current exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, this BIPS seminar will explore how Achaemenid Persian luxury items...

Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts

Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts

Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts with Barbara Brend   The Khamsah of Nizami is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Persian literature and the fifteenth century, under Timurid rule can be considered the most classic period...

Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India

Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India

Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India with Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi   In this talk, I will discuss my book titled Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914. The book argues that medical missions...

The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry

The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry

The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry with Domenico Ingenito   In the Early New Persian literary tradition, especially during the Ghaznavid period (11th c. CE), feasting and fighting (bazm-u razm) were two activities that poets...

Bringing Wales and Iran together through academia and beyond

Bringing Wales and Iran together through academia and beyond

Bringing Wales and Iran together through academia and beyond with John Price This talk replaces Prof Llewellyn-Jones's webinar on Dylan Thomas which will be rescheduled at a later date.   There is more that links Wales and Iran than you dare to imagine. Both...

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