The Idea of Iran: Turks and Persians and the Spread of the Persianate World
Conference
About This Conference
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’ or ‘Perso-Islamic’.
One of the paradoxes of the history of the age is that the establishment throughout the Eastern Islamic lands of new Turkish dynasties at the head of Turkish military elites coincided with the genesis and spread (into Central and South Asia) of new Persian language and literature and of Perso-Islamic culture.
