Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Rise of the Persian Renaissance
This conference was part of a joint programme between the universities of Leiden, Cambridge and Oxford on the history of Persian literature and culture. The programme was discussed and developed at the inaugural meeting of the European League of Non-Western Studies (ELNWS), which was established in Leiden in July 2006. The first conference of this programme ‘Traditions […]
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The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East
Alexander the Great of Macedon was no stranger to controversy in his own time. Conqueror of the Greek states, of Egypt and of the Persian Empire as well as many of the principalities of the Indus Valley, he nevertheless became revered as well as vilified. Was he a simply a destroyer of the ancient civilizations […]
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