Craftland Magazine Launch Ceremony About the event We are pleased to invite you to join the launch event of Craftland international magazine published in London, UK. It is centred around the craft, culture & tourism of Iran. Within each issue, we introduce several...
Persian Arts of the Book About the event 'Persian Arts of the Book' gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition. In a series of short presentations and thematic panel discussions we...
2021 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture Political Thought in Medieval and Early-Modern Iran: Islamic or Persianate? With Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand The event is jointly organised by BIPS and IMeEIS, Durham University. After defining what can be meant...
Kings and Heroes, Lovers and Poets: the Shahnameh’s continuous appeal With Charles Melville & Ina Sarikhani Sandmann The Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, is arguably Iran’s most famous work of literature and one of the world’s greatest epic poems. It...
Iran as Empire: Nader Shah and the emergence of a new Iranian empire With Mohammad Amir Hakimi Parsa Nader Shah ruled Iran from 1736-1747. A military genius, he campaigned almost non-stop in the Caucasus, Ottoman Turkey, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the...
Arezou Azad talks about: THE UNHEARD VOICES FROM EASTERN IRAN AND THE EASTERN ISLAMICATE WORLD Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President Dr Arezou Azad, Director of the Invisible East programme at Oxford University, will reveal an unexpected richness of...
Reza Taher-Kermani talks about: THE PERSIAN PRESENCE IN VICTORIAN POETRY Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President The word Persia stood not just as the poetry of Hafiz or Omar Khayyam in the nineteenth century, but as a complex and paradoxical embodiment of...
An Introduction to Maqam: Music of Iran and the Arab Mashriq Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9th - 23rd March, 2021, 5-7pm Course Fee: £100 The musical heritage spread from North Africa to Central Asia, generally referred to as “maqām”, unites the region, regardless of...
Lloyd Ridgeon talks about: NINETHEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH ORIENTALIST PERCEPTIONS OF PERSIAN SUFISM Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President The majority of nineteenth-century British Orientalist perceptions of Sufism reveal the kinds of images and discussions...
Laura Weinstein talks about: A CHINI KHANA IN BOSTON: EXPERIMENTING WITH THE DISPLAY OF PERSIAN CERAMICS Chair: Professor Charles Melville, BIPS President In mid-2019 the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, opened a re-installed gallery for the Arts of Islamic Cultures. Each...