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Program and Abstracts THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PERSIANATE SOCIETIES 8TH BIENNIAL CONVENTION March 15-18, 2018 Tbilisi, Georgia Ilia State Univesity, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies Program anD Abstracts 1 G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental studies AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES WWW.SIMORGH-AIIS.ORG PERSIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION ASPS CENTRAL EURASIA RESEARCH FUND 2 THE EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PERSIANATE SOCIETIES (ASPS) 15-18 March 2018 Tbilisi, Georgia VENUE: ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY G. TSERETELI INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental studies Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave 3/5 3, Academician G. Tsereteli Street Tbilisi 0162, Georgia Buildings B, G & S 3 Buildings Map Building B (Reception and Inaugural Ceremonies) 32, I. Chavchavadze Ave. Building G – 1, Acad. G. Tsereteli str. Building S – 3, Acad. G. Tsereteli str. (Panel Locations) 4 INTERIM PRESIDENT Saïd Amir Arjomand State University of New York, Stony Brook VICE PRESIDENT Rudi Matthee University of Delaware SECRETARY Ghazzal Dabiri Ghent University TREASURER Daniel Beben Nazarbayev University PAST-PRESIDENTS Parvaneh Pourshariati The City University of New York Rudi Matthee University of Delaware FOUNDER & PAST-PRESIDENT Saïd Amir Arjomand State University of New York Stony Brook 5 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Pooriya Alimoradi University of Toronto Saïd Amir Arjomand, ex-officio JPS Editor State University of New York Stony Brook Sussan Babaie The Courtauld Institute of Art Mehdi Faraji, Ex-Officio New York University Jo-Ann Gross, Ex-Officio & CERF Director The College of New Jersey Mary Elaine Hegland Santa Clara University Matthew Melvin-Koushki University of South Carolina Justine Landau Harvard University D Gershon Lewental ex-Officio JPS Associate Editor Shalem College/The University of Oklahoma Louise Marlow Wellesley College Sunil Sharma, President-Elect Boston College Daniel Sheffield Princeton University 6 REGIONAL OFFICE DIRECTORS ARMENIA Garnik Asatrian Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian State University BALKANS Ahmed Zildžić The Oriental Institute, Sarajevo COUNCIL FOR EURASIA Florian Schwarz Austrian Academy of Sciences GEORGIA George Sanikidze Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University INDIA Isthtiyaq Ahmad Zilli Aligarh Muslim University IRAN Kourosh Kamali Sarvestani The National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran & The University of Hafez-e Shiraz JAPAN Kazuo Morimoto The University of Tokyo 7 THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION Carlo G. Cereti Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” PAKISTAN Muhammad Saleem Mazhar University of the Punjab RUSSIA Pavel Basharin Russian State University for the Humanities TAJIKISTAN Umed Mamadsherzodshoev Institute of Humanities, Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan 8 CONVENTION ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ghazzal Dabiri (Ghent University), Chair ASPS Pooriya Alimoradi (University of Toronto) Saïd Amir Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook) Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University) Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey) Mehdi Faraji (New York University) Louise Marlow (Wellesley College) Rudi Matthee (Delaware University) Aida Nikou (SUNY Stony Brook) Parvaneh Pourshariati (The City University of New York) Tbilisi George Sanikidze (Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies) Grigol Beradze (Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies) Tamar Lekveishvili (Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies) Tamar Mosiashvili (Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies) Nikoloz Nakhutsrishvili (Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies) Irina Koshoridze (Georgian National Museum) 9 ASPS Gratefully Acknowledges the Kind Collaboration and Sponsorship of Ilia State University, G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies Persian Heritage Foundation The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University American Institute of Iranian Studies ASPS Central Eurasian Reseasrch Fund Brill Publishers 10 PROGRAM…………………………………………………………….12 ROOM ASSIGNMENTS BY PANELS………..…………………………………………………....42 ABSTRACTS…………………………………………………………...46 EDITOR’S NOTE.....................................................................................................48 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS...............................................................................................49 PRESIDENTIAL SESSION.................................................................................................50 ENGLISH ABSTRACTS...........................................................................52 PERSIAN ABSTRACTS.........................................................................152 11 PROGRAM Thursday, March 15, 2018 13:00-16.00 REGISTRATION Venue: B201 16.30- 18.30 INAUGURAL CEREMONIES Venue: B201 MASTER OF CEREMONIES: Professor Rudi Matthee, ASPS Vice-President WELCOMING ADDRESSES AND INTRODUCTIONS: Professor George Sanikidze, Ilia State University Professor Giga Zedania, Rector of Ilia State University Academician Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Honorary President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences Dr. Ghazzal Dabiri, ASPS Secretary and Conference Chair Professor Jo-Ann Gross, CERF Director PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSIANATE SUFISM FROM THE 9TH/3RD TO THE 14TH/8TH CENTURY BY Professor Saïd Amir Arjomand, ASPS President CONCERT OF IRANIAN AND GEORGIAN ARTISTS 19:00-21:00 INAUGURAL RECEPTION Venue: B201 12 Friday March 16, 2018 SESSION I 9:00-10:30 1. Iranists and Iranian Studies in Georgia and Europe Room: G106 Panel Chair: George Sanikidze (Ilia State University) Tea Shurgaia (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) The Contributions of Georgian Iranologists to Iranian Folklore Studies (Achievements, Challenges, and Perspective) Evan Siegel (City University of New York) A Georgian Memoir of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution Tamar Demetrashvili (Ilia State University) From the History of the Georgian-Iranian Linguistic Interactions: Parsadan Gorgijanidze and His Lexicographic Legacy Maia Sakhokia (Ilia State University) Achaemenian Inscriptions and the Shahnameh: Literary Art Nature Genre and Relationships with Epos (Shahnameh) (Experience of Georgian Translation of Old Persian Inscriptions) 13 2. Forms of Political Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World I Room: S712 Panel Organizers: Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Kazuo Morimoto (The University of Tokyo) Panel Chair: Judith Pfeiffer (Universität Bonn) Osamu Otsuka (The University of Tokyo) Kingship and Titles of Ilkhanid Rulers: Do They Really Claim Themselves Pādhshāh-i Īrān? Evrim Binbas (Universität Bonn) Contractual Political Ideas in the Timurid Period Kazuo Morimoto (The University of Tokyo) The Earliest ‘Alid Genealogy for the Safavids Revisited Satoshi Ogura (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Political Legitimacies and Their Perceptions in the Multilingual Society of Sultanate and Early Mughal Kashmir 3. The View from Within and Without: Writing the Other in the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Room: S201 Panel Chair: D Gershon Lewental (Shalem College and University of Oklahoma) Robert Hoyland (New York University) Pre-Islamic Iran in Early Muslim Histories Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University) Between Gil and Arman: The Revolt of Babak-e Khorramdin within the Context of South Caucasian History 14 Daniel Beckman (Princeton University) Mithridates Eupator and Tigranes the Great: Hellenistic Propaganda in an Iranian Context Christian Sahner (University of Cambridge, St John's College) Zoroastrians in Early Muslim Society: Evidence from Some ʿAbbasid-Era Pahlavi Sources 4. Cancelled: Representing Celestial Kingship in the Persianate World Room: S401 (Library) Mohammed Vaez (University of Tehran) Celestial Symbolism in Gonbad-e-Qabus: Tracing Cosmic Order at the Tomb of the Solar King [Withdrawn] Peyvand Firouzeh (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) Between Textile, Talisman, and Poetry of Space: The “Chelleh Khaneh” at the Shrine of Shah Nematullah-e Vali in Mahan [Withdrawn] COFFEE BREAK 10:30-10:45 Building G Hall 15 SESSION 2 10:45-12:15 5. Classical Persian Poets and Texts Room: S201 Panel Chair: Marina Alexidze (Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University) Sherzod Davrukov (University of Central Asia) ﺜﻋ ﻤ نﺎ ﺘﺨﻣ رﺎ ی ﺰﻏ ﻧ ﻮ ی و ﻢﮭﺳ وا رد ا ﺎفﺸﮑﻧ ﻗﺼ ﯿ هﺪ Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Joseph and His Two Wives: Patterns of Cultural Accommodation in the Judeo-Persian Tale of Yūsuf and Zulaykhā by Shāhīn Eliza Tasbihi (McGill University) Apocryphal Texts in Sufi Literature: Revisiting “Book Seven” of Rūmī’s Mathnawī [Withdrawn] 6. Modern Iranian Architecture and Urban Planning Room: G106Panel Chair: Mary Elaine Hegland (Santa Clara University) Mary Elaine Hegland (Santa Clara University) From Agriculture to Urban Real Estate: A Twenty-first century Perspective on the 1962 Aliabad Land Reform Ali Mozaffari (Deakin University) and Nigel Westbrook (University of West Australia) Culture and Development: Architecture and the Design of Heritage in 1970s Iran Niloofar Kakhi (University of St Andrews) 16 Towards the Formation of a ‘Representative’ Architecture: The Role of Archaeology in the Formation of Architectural Histories in Iran 7. Forms of Political Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World II Room: S712 Panel Organizers: Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and Kazuo Morimoto (The University of Tokyo) Panel Chair: Saïd Amir Arjomand (SUNY, Stony Brook) Golriz Farshi (University
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