Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran, heir not only to the succession of leadership of the Safavid sufi order, but also to the Aq Qoyunlu dispensation of western Iran and more remotely to the Timurid Empire in the East. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under […]
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The Idea of Iran: The Timurids and the Turkmen Intermezzo
The Fifteenth Century saw the slow disintegration of the empire roughly assembled through the military conquests of Timur, ultimately dividing (as so often in the past) into independent realms to the east and west of the Central Kavir. While the Timurids retained their hold on Khurasan and Transoxiana, the west was lost to the Qara […]
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