Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Idea of Iran: Renewal in the Age of Post-Mongol Prestige
The Mongol invasions of the first half of the thirteenth century set in motion profound transformations in the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. The previous symposium in this series on the Idea of Iran investigated the immediate effects of Mongol rule during the Ilkhanid period, which had sponsored the reinstatement of Iranian cultural identities […]
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The Idea of Iran: Post-Mongol Polities and the Reinvention of Iranian Identities
The Mongol invasions of the first half of the thirteenth-century set in motion profound transformations in the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. With Hülegü’s conquest of Baghdad in 1258 – and the disintegration of the Abbasid caliphal hegemony – successor polities, chief among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus sponsored […]
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