Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The Idea of Iran: Turks and Persians and the Spread of the Persianate World
The eighth programme in the series will focus on the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political and cultural strength of the Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane and when the Eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a new character, which has been dubbed ‘Persianate’ […]
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The Idea of Iran: Last of the Persian Dynasties
In this, the seventh, programme in our series on ‘the Idea of Iran’, we are again exploring the critical period of Iranian history, when, as the power the Abbasids in Baghdad waned, a series of autonomous Iranian dynasties – Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids and Buyids – emerged in the eastern provinces of the caliphate. Around 1000 […]
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