The
Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era
Date:
27 October 2018Time: 9:45 AM to: 6:00 PM
Venue:
Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lectur Theatre, SOAS, London
9.50-10.00
Introduction
10.00-10.45
Historiographical
perceptions of the transmission from Timurid to Safavid Iran
Ali
Anooshahr, University of California, Davis
10.45-11.30
The
Qazvin period and the idea of the Safavids
Gregory
Aldous, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
11.30-12.15
Popular
religiosity and vernacular Turkic: A Qizilbash catechism from Safavid
Iran
Ferenc
Csirkés, Sabanci University
1.15-2.00
The
bureaucratic career of Hatim Beg Urdubadi
Colin
Mitchell, Dalhousie University
2.00-2.45
The
Idea of Iran in the Safavid period: Dynastic pre-eminence and urban pride
Rudi
Mathhee, University of Delaware
2.45-3.15
Universal
harmony (sulh-i kull) and political theology in Safavid Iran
Daniel
J. Sheffield, Princeton University
3.45-4.30
Practicing
philosophy, imagining Iran in the Safavid period
Sajjad
Rizvi, University of Exeter
4.30-5.15
Safavids
and Shi‘ism in the age of sectarianism
Andrew
J. Newman, University of Edinburgh
5.15-6.00
From
Khazaneh to audience: Reception and perception of European artworks
at the court of Shah Sulaiman
Negar
Habibi, University of Geneva