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Maryam Ala Amjadi earned her Erasmus Mundus joint doctorate degree in July 2017 from University of Kent (UK) and Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Her research focuses on the complex relationship between mobility and identity in Persian Safavid travel narratives. She has previously worked as a writer for the Tehran Times Daily, where she founded and wrote a weekly page dedicated to Iranian culture and society. Ala Amjadi is a published poet and translator of poetry. Her book chapter on poetry in Iran’s contemporary theo-political culture will appear in the Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society.
Gregory Aldous earned a PhD in medieval Middle Eastern history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MS in Urban Planning from Florida State University. His PhD thesis was on the relationship between Shah Tahmasp and the Qezelbash at the beginning of Tahmasp’s reign. He has taught Middle Eastern and world history at Concordia University Wisconsin and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. His main research interests are the political history and urban history of the early Safavid period. Ali Anooshahr is a Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He is a scholar of ‘comparative Islamic empires’ with a focus on historiography, history of memory, and the cultural history of Persianate societies in the early modern period. He is the author of two books: The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam (Routledge, 2009) and Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires (Oxford, 2018), and articles published in Iranian Studies, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Journal of Early Modern History and the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
Sussan Babaie is Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is the author of Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran, the co-editor/co-author of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2004), and the editor of Iran after the Mongols, vol. 8 in the The Idea of Iran series (2019).
Sheila Canby spent eighteen years as Curator of Islamic Art and Antiquities at the British Museum before being appointed Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009. She became Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2019. Her publications include Persian Painting (1993), The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501–1722 (1999), Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, with Jon Thompson (2003), Islamic Art in Detail (2005), Shah ‘Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (2009), The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (2011 and 2014), and with Deniz Beyazit and Martina Rugiadi, Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs (2016).
Ferenc Csirkés received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Sabancı University in Istanbul. Prior to that, he worked at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and the University of Tübingen in Germany. Straddling literary, intellectual and cultural history on the one hand, and Persian and Turkish on the other, his research focuses on the interrelation of the politics of language, confessionalization and state building in the larger Turko-Persian world during the late medieval and early modern periods. He has two ongoing book projects, one being the history of Turkic literary culture in Safavid Iran and the other the intellectual biography of Sadeqi Beg, a major painter and litterateur of the period.
Roy S. Fischel is a lecturer (assistant professor) in the History of South Asia at SOAS University of London. He completed his PhD in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2012. His work focuses on the formations of states, societies, ideologies, identities and cultures – and the intersection between them – in early modern South Asia and the Muslim world, building on sources in Persian and Arabic as well as Marathi and Dakhani. His monograph Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan was recently published by Edinburgh University Press. His current work examines kingship, sovereignty and historiography in Bijapur between the Persianate, Islamic and Indic worlds. Willem Floor, independent scholar, writes books and articles on the socioeconomic, cultural and medical history of Iran. His most recent book is Persian Pleasures. How Iranians Relaxed through the Centuries. Food, Drink & Drugs (Washington DC: Mage: 2019).
Negar Habibi is an art historian and lecturer in Islamic Art History and Soudavar Foundation Fellow at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses principally on paintings from early modern Iran. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, her academic work centres on the artists’ career and life, the authenticity of their signature, gender issues and artistic patronage. She has published several articles on the art and artists of late seventeenth-century Iran, and her book titled ʿAli Qoli Jebādār et l’occidentalisme safavide: une étude sur les peintures dites farangi sāzi, leurs milieux et commanditaires sous Shah Soleimān (1666-94) was recently published by Brill.
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Delaware, works on the political and socioeconomic history of early modern Iran and its connections with the wider world. He is the author of four-prize-winning scholarly books, most recently The xiv Monetary History of Iran (2013, co-authored), and the co-editor of another four books, most recently Russians and Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond (2018). He is the former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (2002–5 and 2008–11), currently serves as the President of the Persian Heritage Foundation. He is also co-editor of Der Islam and a consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Charles Melville became ad hominem Professor of Persian History at Cambridge University in 2008, now emeritus. He is President of the British Institute of Persian Studies (British Academy) and director of the Cambridge Shahnama Project. Publications on Safavid Iran include ‘The illustration of history in Safavid manuscript painting’, in New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society, ed. Colin Mitchell (2011); ‘Editors’ Preface’, in A Chronicle of the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas. Fazli Beg Khuzani Isfahani, with Kioumars Ghereghlou ( 2015); ‘New light on Shah ‘Abbas and the construction of Isfahan’, Muqarnas 33 (2016); ‘A mechanical clock in Kashan in the early 17th century’, in Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (Cracow, 2019); ‘Shah Tahmasp Shahnama paintings in the Shah Tahmasp Album’, in Art and the Culture of Books in the Islamic world, with Firuza Abdullaeva, ed. Aslihan Erkmen & Sebnem Tamcan (2020, in press); and ‘Shah ‘Abbas’s patronage of the dynastic shrine at Ardabil’, Muqarnas 37 (2020, in press).
Colin Mitchell is an Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. He completed his PhD in 2002 at the University of Toronto and held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Persian Studies at Cornell University in 2002-3. In addition to various articles on the Safavid Empire, he has published The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion, and Rhetoric (I.B. Tauris, 2009), which is an in-depth analysis of the Safavid chancery during the sixteenth century and its production of diplomatic texts which borrowed and adapted from a panoply of traditions (history, poetry, law, exegesis, philosophy, mysticism). He also edited a festschrift on behalf of the noted Safavid historian Roger Savory, entitled New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society (Routledge, 2011).
Andrew Newman is Personal Chair of Islamic Studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a BA in History from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from UCLA. He came to Edinburgh in 1996 from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and Green College, Oxford, where he was researching topics in the history of Islamic medicine. Newman has published on early Twelver Shi‘ism and Shi‘i history and thought and on Shi‘ism in Safavid Iran. His most recent monograph is Twelver Shiism, Unity and Diversity in the Life of Islam, 632 to 1722 (Edinburgh, 2013). He is the founder/moderator of Shī‘ī News and Resources. CONTRIBUTORS xv Benedek Péri is the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and the head of the Department of Turkic Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research interests include various aspects of the history of Persianate literary traditions (Chaghatay, Persian, Ottoman, Türkī-yi ʿAjamī) with a special focus on the fifteenth–sixteenth century, the history of Turkish language and literature on the Indian subcontinent and the history of drug consumption in Persianate societies. His latest book, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was published in 2018. He is currently working on a critical edition of Yavuz Sultan Selim’s (r. 1512–20) Persian divan.
Sajjad Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Islam at the University of Exeter. A specialist on Safavid-Mughal philosophy, he is the author of Mullā Ṣadrā and Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009), and is currently writing a monograph on philosophy in eighteenth-century Iran and North India, as well as an introduction to Mir Damad and another short study on the intellectual history of time in Islamic thought. Aurélie Salesse-Chabrier, Doctor in modern history, is a specialist in political and cultural relations between Safavid Iran and Europe. She has taught Iranian history and civilization at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO, Paris) and also at the Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her current research focuses on diplomatic, cultural, and economic relations between France and Iran in the seventeenth century. She currently teaches history in the Lyon area. George Sanikidze is Professor at the Ilia State University, Georgia (Head of the programme of Middle Eastern Studies) and Director of the G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies at the same University. His research topics include the history and politics of the Middle Eastern countries (especially Iran) and the Caucasus, the medieval and modern history of Islam, and East-West interactions.
George Sanikidze has worked as a visiting scholar at Paris-Sorbonne-III and Paris-Sorbonne-IV Universities, University of California-Berkeley, Universities of Hokkaido and Osaka, Japan. He is the author up to 70 scientific works, published in Georgia, UK, France, Japan, USA, Holland, Turkey, Iran and elsewhere. Florian Schwarz is Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria, and affiliate professor for Iranian Studies at the University of Vienna. Following his PhD in 1998 from the University of Tübingen, he taught Islamic Studies at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Middle Eastern and Central Asian History at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of monographs and articles on the history of medieval to early modern Middle East, Iran and Central Asia. xvi CONTRIBUTORS Sunil Sharma is Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature at Boston University’s Department of World Languages and Literatures. He received his PhD in Persian literature from the University of Chicago. His research interests are in the areas of Persian(ate) literary and visual cultures, translation, and travel writing. His most recent book is Mughal Arcadia: Persian Poetry in an Indian Court (Harvard University Press, 2017). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Persianate Societies and Studies in Persian Cultural History. He is the current outgoing President of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).
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