Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Idea of Iran: From Saljuq Collapse to Mongol Conquest
After the death of Sultan Sanjar in the mid-sixth/twelfth-century the Saljuq empire rapidly unravelled, its provinces fragmenting into a patchwork of mostly short-lived principalities and kingdoms. This was the era when the atabegs – originally guardians responsible for the upbringing of Saljuq princes – developed into a series of independent local dynasties, each holding a […]
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The Idea of Iran: The Age of the Great Saljuqs
The ninth programme in our ‘The Idea of Iran’ series will focus on the age of the Great Saljuqs (11th and 12th centuries CE). The new Turko-Persian symbiosis that had emerged under the Samanids, Ghaznavids and Qara-Khanids came to fruition in a period that combined imperial grandeur with extraordinary artistic achievement. Under the Saljuqs a […]
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