International Conference on

‘Intellectual & Cultural Relations Between Iran and Central Asia and the Caucasus’

Research Center for Islamic History Faculty of Literature and Humanities Center for Central Eurasia Studies University of Tehran

Programme I

First day Wednesday- May 01, 2019

Venue: University of Tehran Title Lecturer Time Hall Faculty National anthem & Holy Qur'an 09:00-09:15 Goodarz Rashtiani Conference Report 09:15-09:25 Academic Secretary Seyyed Hadi Khamenei 09:25-09:35 Head of Research Center for Islamic History

Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi President of the University of Tehran 09:35-09:45 Elaheh Koolaee Director of Center for Central Eurasia Studies 09:45-10:00 University of Tehran Welcome & Opening Remarks Christine Noelle-Karimi Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna 10:00-10:10 George Sanikidze

Opening Ceremony Director of G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Ferdowsi Grand Hall Studies 10:10-10:20 Ilia State University Mansur Sefatgol

Faculty of Literature and Humanities Department of History 10:20-10:35 University of Tehran

Coffee Break

Panel Chair: M. Farhad Atai

Discussant: Hossein Zarrini From the Hindu Kush to the Caucasus: Roozbeh Zarrinkoob Geographic desolation of Central Asia, from 11:00-11:20 Alexander the Great to the Roman Empire University of Tehran

: Medes, Scythians, the ethnic and cultural diversity of the ancient Caucasus Mehrdad Malekzadeh 11:20-11:40 (Based on Linguistic studies, Archaeological Research Institute of Cultural Heritage results and Historical data) Persian historiography in the Caucasus Abbas Ghadimi Gheydari 11:40-12:00 in the 19th century University of Tabriz Battle of Shirvan: Ending the conquests of Nematollah Alimohammady Muslim Arabs toward the Caucasus University of Tehran 12:00-12:20 Parallel 1 Session Ostad Abbas Iqbal Ashtiani Longevity and continuity of Iranian cultural heritage from the Scythians-Sarmatians to our Nahid Abdaltajedini 12:20-12:40 era: Etymology and Toponymy of Central Asian Researcher Rivers Hall of Faculty of Literature and Humanities Discussion 12:40-13:00 Panel Chair: Hassan Hazrati

Discussant: Seyedeh Fahimeh Ebrahimi Visual Culture in Safavid Iran: the case of Negar Habibi 11:00-11:20 wall paintings in New Jolfā and Isfahan University of Geneva :

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Shoj’aatname’s miniatures as the illustrated Nasrollah Salehi -

11:20-11:40 history of Ottoman–Persian wars in the Caucasus University of Farhangian The Isfahan School of Painting: Representation of Diplomatic and Spiritual- Diloram Sangirova 11:40-12:00 Cultural Relations Between Persia and Bukhara Gulistan State University Khanate in 16-17th Centuries

Humanities

Central Asia, Caucasus and Iran in the Silk Hassan Bastani Rad Ostad Bastani 12:00-12:20 Road Project of UNESCO Perspective University of Shahid Beheshti Parallel Session Iranian Clothes and adornments of the Georgian nobles (Study of frescos from the 17th Tamar Lekveishvili 12:20-12:40 Faculty of Literature and Ilia State University Hall of c. Georgian Churches) Discussion 12:40-13:00 1

Lunch

Panel Chair: Mansur Sefatgol

Discussant: Ali Kalirad

Junaid-Khan in Iran (1928-1929) Kaveh Bayat 14:30-14:50 Researcher Duality among Jadids’ approaches and

Seyedeh Fahimeh Ebrahimi

behaviors in Bukhara and Samarkand; 14:50-15:10 : Causes and Consequences Allameh Tabatabai University 3 Caucasian Marriages: some remarks on the marriages between Safavid ğolâms and Safavid Giogio Rota 15:10-15:30 Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna ssion ladies Caucasian leftism and modernist discourse in Javad Morshedloo 15:30-15:50 modern Iran Tarbiat Modares University A murder in the Gorgji-Mahaleh (Mazandaran): Two different Georgian and Persian narratives Nikoloz Nakhutsrishvili 15:50-16:10 Parallel Se Ostad Abbas Iqbal Ashtiani

Ilia State University in 1916 The Reciprocal Images and Ideas of Iranians and Uzbeks in the Accounts of Historical and Habiballah Esmaeili 16:10-16:30 Hall of Literary sources of the Battles between Shāh Researcher Faculty of Literature and Humanities Esmāʽīl and Shaybak Khān Discussion 16:30-16:50 Panel Chair: Abbas Borumand A’lam Discussant: Radman Rasouli Mehrabani

Distribution of Christian missionary pamphlets Rasoul Jafariyan from the Caucasus to Iran and the reactions to University of Tehran 14:30-14:50 them Central Asia and Iran in 16th – 19th centuries:

Nigora Allaeva Parizi

: the Ways and Forms of 14:50-15:10

- Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences 4 Intellectual and Cultural Interchange The process of Russification in the Hossein Zarrini 15:10-15:30 Caucasus Researcher The reflection of the Georgian women's image of Nasrollahpour Mohammadi Amelishi the Safavid era in European travelogues 15:30-15:50 (1600-1750 AD) Imam Khomeini International University Ostad Bastani

literary look of a politician: Describe of Iran in Zahra Mohammadi 15:50-16:10 Alexander Griboedov's Travelogue University of Tehran Parallel Session The traditions of Oriental calligraphy in the work of Dagestani katibs of "al-Matba'a al- Milena N.Osmanova Hall of 16:10-16:30 Islamiya" printing house (the beginning of the Russian Academy of Sciences Faculty of Literature and Humanities XXth century) Discussion 16:30-16:50

Panel Chair: Elaheh Koolaee Rediscovering the journey of Adolfo Jose Cutillas Ferrer Rivadeneyra, a Spanish diplomat and traveler 14:30-14:50 through the Caucasus and Iran (19th century) University of Alicante

Making the Sheybanid Transoxiana; A

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glimpse on the establishment of an Uzbek- Seyyed Ali Mazinani 5 14:50-15:10 Hanafi identity in Transoxiana under the Researcher Sheybainds Descendants of Bahman Mirza’s as Nigar Gozalova prominent figures of social and political life 15:10-15:30 of Azerbaijan Republic Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Center for advanced Delineation between two major denominations of th Selim Güngörürler

Parallel Session Islam in the 16 century: Iran and Ottoman Koç University 15:30-15:50 International Studies empire Iranian cultural elements in the Caucasus Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi 15:50-16:10 Hall of according to the narration of Evliya Çelebi University of Tehran Discussion 16:10-16:30 Faculty of Law and Political Science Chair: Javad Morshedloo

Celebrating the Scholarly and Cultural Achievements of Prof. Grigol Beradze

17:00-18:00 Rasool Jafarian, Giorgio Rota, Mansur Sefatgol, Ioseb Chakhvashvili, Willem Floor, George Sanikidze, Goodarz Rashtiani

Ashtiani

Ostad Abbas Iqbal

Humanities

Move to Allameh Tabatabaei University for Dinner Banquet 18:30

Faculty of Literature and

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Programme II

Second day Thursday - May 02, 2019

Venue: Research Center for Islamic History (Pazhuheshkadeh Tarikh Islam) No.9, Shahruz-e Sharghi St., Tavanir (Abbaspour) St. Tel: +982188676861 Title Lecturer Time Panel Chair: Christine Noelle-Karimi Discussant: Mehdi Hosseini Taghiabad A window to the west and to the east: Iranian and European George Sanikidze perceptions of the 19th C. in Tbilisi Ilia State University 09:00-09:20 Cultural Image of Shamakhi in 16th-17th century (in the Lukáš Rybár

09:20-09:40 works of some European travelers) Comenius University Iranian influential figure in the social, political and 6: economic life of Dagestan in the second half of the 19th Seyyed Hossein Tabatabai 09:40-10:00 th Researcher century and the first half of the 20 century

Mohammad K. Sharif Kazemi Session Iranian Cultural Relations with Central Asian and Caucasian Central Hall Center for Archival Documents 10:00-10:20 Countries based on archival Manuscripts and History of Diplomacy Remaining Persian works from Christian and Jews Radman Rasouli Mehrabani 10:20-10:40 immigrants in Crimea peninsula PhD Student Discussion 10:40-11:00

Coffee Break

Panel Chair: Alireza Valipour Discussant: Shiva Alizadeh Some Pages from the History of Iranian-Georgian Cultural Grigol Beradze 11:15-11:35 Relations: Hafez Shirazi’s Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Georgia Ilia State University Sense of belonging to Iranian Nationality among Iranian Mehdi Hosseini Taghiabad Nationals living in the Caucasus in the Late Nineteenth Century 11:35-11:55

to the Bolshevik Revolution; Case Study: Iranian Armenians Caucasus Studies Institute

7: Sam Mirza's views on versification and poets’ skills Akram Baghirov (Based on the Tazkira Tohfeyi-Sami) Azerbaijan National Academy of 11:55-12:15 Sciences

Session Session

Central Hall Battle of the G’ijduvon, Ali Alibabaee Dermeni National failure, consequence of tribal discrepancies Encyclopedia of the World of 12:15-12:35 Islam The necessity of reviving the Legacy of Iranian Literature in Rahim Nikbakht 12:35-12:55 the Southern Caucasus Institute of Aran Discussion 12:55-13:15

Lunch

Panel Chair: Giogio Rota Discussant: Habiballah Esmaeili Qajar Envoys in Khiva Christine Noelle-Karimi 14:30-15:o0 Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna The Persian Consular Posts and Officers in the Russian Ali Kalirad 15:00-15:20 Empire (According to the Almanach de Gotha( University of Tehran The political legitimacy changes of the Shibanid Khanate

Ali Rezaee Pouya 8: th 15:20-15:40 (Central Asia, 16 AD) Researcher Diplomatic traditions of Persia, Khiva and the Bukhara Khanate in Artem Andreev the XVII-XVIII Century According to ambassadors’ documents in St.Petersburg State University 15:40-16:00

Session Session Russia Central Hall Fedar Takazov Invasion of the Shah's troops in Ossetia North Ossetian State University 16:00-16:20 (based on Ossetian folklore materials) Mousa Abdollahi Allameh Tabatabai University Discussion 16:20-16:40

Coffee Break

Roundtable: Conference Results & Closing Remarks

Kaveh Bayat, M.Taghi Imami Khoei, Akram Baghirov, Nigora Allaeva, Nikoloz Nakhutsrishvili, 17:00-18.30 Goodarz Rashtiani

Conference Photo 18:30 Central Hall

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