The Ninth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

March 11–13, 2020, University of Chicago Center, New Delhi, India

Draft Program (updated 20 January 2020)

10 March 2020 17:00 - 19:00 Board of Directors Meeting (closed session) at Park Hotel

Day One: Wednesday 11 March 2020 Registration: 8:00 – 17:00 Session 1.1: 9:00 – 10:30 Room 1: Views from Within and Without: Aspects of Modern Iranian Politics Chair: Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton University) Miranda Basheleishvili (Ilia State University): South in Iran’s Current Politics: An Analysis of Iranian Academic Works Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse University): Circulation of Elites in Post-Revolutionary Iran Houchang Chehabi (Boston University): An Indian Ocean Odyssey: Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius Rowena Abdul Razak (University of Oxford): The Tudeh Party in Britain: Isolation and Activism

Room 2: Arguing the Place of the Prophet’s Family in the Persianate World Chair: Louise Marlow (Wellesley College) Yayoi Kawahara (Chuo University): Nasab-namas of Sayyids in the Ferghana Valley during the Period of the of Khoqand Julien Levesque (Centre de Sciences Humaines): Conceptions of Social Hierarchy and Community Solidarity in Two South Asian “Sayyid Associations” Ryo Mizukami (University of Tokyo): The Ḥillī Shiʻis Reacting to Imamophilia among Sunnis: A Study of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Ḥammūyī’s (d. 1322) Farāʼid al-Simṭayn Ayako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University): Discussing Sayyids in the Indian Regional Context

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Room 3: Persian as a Lingua Franca in the Ottoman Empire Chair: Selim Kuru (University of Washington) Munir Drkić (University of Sarajevo): Centers of Persian Learning in Eastern Ottoman Lands according to Quotations by Ahmed Sudi Bosnavi Hasmik Kirakosyan ( State University): Kemāl Pāshā-zāde’s Philological Works in the Context of the Persian-Turkish Language Contacts Sargsyan (University of Hamburg): On the Practical Usage of the Persian -Turkish Dictionaries in the Educational System of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th -16th Centuries

Tea Break: 10:30 – 10:45

Session 1.2: 10:45 – 12:15 Room 1: Historiography, Patronage and Religion in the Mongol Era Chair: Sunil Kumar (University of Delhi) Eduardo Acaron-Padilla (Indiana University, Bloomington): The Immortal Enters the Land of Darkness: Intertextuality and Mongol Patronage in Rashid-al Din’s Tārikh-e-Oghuz Shiva Mihan (Harvard Art Museums): A Baysunghuri Tarikh-i Vassaf in the Keir Collection Kaveh Niazi (Stanford Online High School): Convolutions of Clienthood in the Procurement of Patronage: Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī and an Early Patron Miklós Sárközy (Karoli Gaspar University): Reassessing Mongol-Nizārī Contacts in the Ilkhānid Period

Room 2: Legal and Historical Aspects of Women and Gender in Iran Chair: TBA Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei (Virginia Commonwealth University): Feminine Jurisprudence: A Quest for Gender Justice Tinatin Kupatadze (Ilia State University): The Origins of Iranian Feminism and Its Pioneers Irene Schneider (University of Göttingen): “Honor” and “Honor-killing” in the 2013 Iranian Penal Code Zohre Cheraghi (Yazd University): Yazdi Women Endowments from 7th to 13th Century Hijri

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Room 3: Zoroastrian Literature and Identity Chair: Houchang Chehabi (Boston University) Mohsen Kateb (Yazd University): Nationalism and Historical Rethinking of Zoroastrianism Samuel Thrope (Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, University of Haifa): “For fifty years we should have been doing this!”: Humor and Genre in the Zoroastrian Bundahišn Anton Zykov (Goethe Universität): Parsi Identity and Language

Lunch Break: 12:15 – 14:00

Session 1.3: 14:00 – 15:30 Room 1: Indo-Persian Cultural Production in Regional Centers Chair: Thibaut d’Hubert (University of Chicago) Sushmita Banerjee (Miranda House, University of Delhi): Narrativising the Past of the Muslim Community in the Sixteenth Century: Sufi Orders, Didactics and Identity Formation Nishat Manzar (Jamia Millia Islamia): Societal Crisis and Colonial Concerns in the Nineteenth Century: Tashrih-ul-Aqwam of Colonel James Skinner (1825 CE) Madhabi Rupa Roy (Independent Scholar): The Hukmnamas of Tipu Sultan Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney): Stone and Poetry: Replicating the Ka’ba in Bahmani Bidar

Room 2: Dramatic Arts, Cinema and Society in Modern Iran Chair: Jane Lewisohn (SOAS) Parviz Ejlali (Iranian Sociological Association): Competing Lifestyles and Subcultures of Iranians as Depicted by Iranian Movies: 2016-1904 ﺟﺎﯾﮕﺎه اﺟﺘﻤﺎﻋﯽ ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪان اﯾﺮاﻧﯽ در ﺧﺎﻧﻮاده (ﻣﻮرد ﻣﻄﺎﻟﻌﮫ: ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪان ﺳﺎﮐﻦ :(Tahereh Jafari (Refah University ﺧﺎﻧﻮاده ھﺎ و ﺳﺮاھﺎی ﺳﺎﻟﻤﻨﺪی Amir Najafi (Jagiellonian University): Islam, Politics and Dramatic Arts in Iran: The Evolution of Dramatic Arts in Iran in Three Stages: Shiite Official Formation in Iran (1500), the Constitutional Revolution (1907) and the Islamic Revolution (1979)

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Room 3: Judaeo-Persian Language and Literature I Chair: Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of ) Ofir Haim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Judaeo-Persian Religious Literature (10th-14th centuries) Maximilian Kinzler (University of Hamburg): Dialectal Features of Early Judaeo-Persian Verbs Imke Mizera (University of Hamburg): Early Jewish and Muslim Hermeneutics in Persian: The Early Judaeo Persian and New Persian Tafsīrs of the Hebrew Bible and the Qurʾān

Tea Break: 15:30 – 16:00

Session 1.4: 16:00 – 17:30 Room 1: Literary Modernity in Persianate Societies Chair: Firuza Melville (University of Cambridge) Aftandil Erkinov (The Center for Research of Uzbekistan's Cultural Wealth Located Overseas): Persian Poetry Rewritten by Order of the Ruler of the Khivian Khanate Mukhammad Rakhim- khan II (1864-1910) Emily Laskin (University of California, Berkeley): Locating Central Asia in Adbulrauf Fitrat’s Tales of an Indian Traveler Sara Mashayekh (Independent Scholar): Delusions of History: Hedayat's Blind Owl and Ancient Iran Connor Pierce (University of Arizona): The Discovery of Self and Nation: An Examination of the Poetry of Muhammad Iqbal

Room 2: Politics and Religion in 18th Century Iran Chair: Said Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook) András Barati (Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies): Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī’s Policies towards Mashhad and the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī Tamar Lekveishvili (Ilia State University): Religion and Politics: Iranian-Eastern Georgian Interactions during Nader Shah’s Rule

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Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware): In the Aftermath of the Collapse: Regional Disruption and Continuity in Post-Safavid Iran Ryuichi Sugiyama (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo): Organization and Administration of the Emam Reza Mausoleum during the Afsharid Period

Room 3: Language, Literature and Culture in Badakhshan, Tajikistan Chair: Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey) ﺷﻌﺮ اﺟﺘﻤﺎی و اﻧﻌﮑﺎس واﻗﻌﯿﺖ در اﺷﻌﺎرﺑﮫ زﺑﺎن :(Sherzod Davrukov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan ﺷﻐﻨﺎﻧﯽ Muhiba Makhmadzhanova (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): The Paradigm of the Internal and External in the Views of Nosiri Khusrav and Jaloluddin Balkhi Rumi Hokim Qalandariyon (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): Lidush Habib: A Forgotten Pamiri Poet Haydar Tawakkalov (Khorogh State University): The Role of Falak in the Traditional Music Culture of Badakhshan

Opening Ceremonies and Reception: 17:45 – 19:30

Day Two: Thursday 12 March 2020 Session 2.1: 9:00 – 10:30 Room 1: Literature, Religion and Culture in Qajar Iran Chair: Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) Kamran Arjomand (University of Halle): Justification of Divine Miracles: A Theological Challenge in 19th Century Iran James Clark (University of Nebraska at Omaha): Fact and Fiction: Two Works by Mirza Hasan Khan E'temad os-Saltaneh Omid Ghaemmaghami (SUNY, Binghamton): The Quran Commentaries of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (d. 1921) Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University): Rediscovering the Arsacids: Finding the Distant Past in the Late Qajar Period

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Room 2: Indo-Persian Art History and Art Historiography Chair: TBA Yuka Kadoi (Institute of Art History, University of Vienna): Coomaraswamy and Kramrisch: The Absence of Persia in Indian Art History Sara Mondini (Ca' Foscari University): The Role of 15th Century Bidar Khanqahs and their Collections within the Coeval Deccani Society: The Case of Abu’l-Faid Khanqah Collection Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University): Halfway on the Road: Indo-Iranian Cultural Politics and the Shrine of Mir Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani

Room 3: Judaeo-Persian Language and Literature II Chair: D Gershon Lewental (Shalem College) Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg): The ‘Late Early Judaeo-Persian’ Tafsīrs of the 13th-14th Centuries Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Retelling the Hebrew Bible in Verse: The Interplay of Jewish and Islamic Traditions in the Book of Genesis by the Medieval Judaeo- Persian Poet Shāhīn David Yeroushalmi (Tel Aviv University): The Literary Milieu and Work of the Judaeo-Persian Poet ʿImrānī (1454 - 1536?)

Tea Break: 10:30 – 10:45

Session 2.2: 10:45 – 12:15 Room 1: Historiography, Identity and Sectarian Politics in the Safavid Era Chair: Charles Melville (University of Cambridge) Ayşe Baltacıoğlu Brammer (New York University): Safavid Shiism, Ottoman Sunnism, and the Border Formation in between Ferenc Csirkes (Sabanci University): Ahari Tabrizi and the Politics of Turkic under Shah ‘Abbas Yui Kanda (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo): Because the End of that Thread Leads to Light: Two Brass Objects Endowed to the Twelver Shiʿite Mausoleums

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Sholeh Quinn (University of California, Merced): Revisioning the Past in Safavid and Mughal Universal Histories

Room 2: The Geopoetics of the Persianate Ghazal: From Istanbul to Delhi, via Shiraz Chair: Sunil Sharma (Boston University) Domenico Ingenito (University of California, Los Angeles): Intoxicating Delhi with Shirazi Nectars: The Literary Geography of the Lyric Encounter between Sa‘di, Amir Khusraw, and Hasan Sijzi Selim Kuru (University of Washington): New Lives in a New Space for an Old Form: Manifestations of Ottoman Turkish Gazel at the Ottoman Court Jane Mikkelson (University of Chicago): Delhi in the Lyric Experiences of Bīdel and Ḥazīn: Disturbance and Consolation Shahla Farghadani (University of Michigan): The Astonishing Mihri: Constructing a Female Poet in the Persianate Anthology Tradition

Room 3: Persian Linguistics: Semantic Analysis and Gender across Time Chair: TBA Meri Chikobava (Ilia State University): On the Origin and Semantics of the Persian dorūd Tamar Demetrashvili (Ilia State University): Ambivalent Iranian Root *frāi-: frī- : Semantic Analysis Olimjon Makhmadjonov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): Analysis of New Process of Gender in Modern Tajik Linguistics ﺷﮕﺮدھﺎی آﻣﻮزش ﻓﺸﺮده زﺑﺎن ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ ﺑﮫ ﻧﻮآﻣﻮزان ﺑﺰرﮔﺴﺎل ﻣﻘﯿﻢ اﯾﺮان :(Shahrzad Shahedi (Shiraz University Zohreh Zarshenas (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies): “šyr” in Buddhist Sogdian Texts

Lunch Break: 12:15 – 14:00 Room 1: Film 12:30-13:30 Dilli: Yadon ki Mahfil (Delhi: A Gathering of Memories), with documentary filmmaker Yousuf Saeed

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Session 2.3: 14:00 – 15:30 Room 1: Understanding Iranian Classical Music from the Perspective of Mathematics and Physics: Dr. Mehdi Barkeshli and the Revival of the Scientific Study of Music Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati (New York City College of Technology) Ariana Barkeshli (SUNY DCC - Pianist and Independent Scholar): The Contributions of the late Dr. Mehdi Barkeshli to Iranian Culture and Music Ali Kazemi (Independent Scholar): Ornamentation in Classical Persian Music: A Concise History Sepideh Khaksar (Freie Universität Berlin): Understanding Iranian Musical Scales through the Mathematical and Physical Characteristics of Sound

Room 2: Meaning and Metaphor in Persian Poetry and Literature Chair: Domenico Ingenito (UCLA) Pavel Basharin (Russian State University for the Humanities): Images of dīvs in Indo-Persian Culture ﺑﺎزﺳﺎزی ﻧﺎﻣﮥ ﺟﻮاﺑﯿﮥ ﻣﻔﻘﻮد ﺧﺴﺮوﭘﺮوﯾﺰ ﺑﮫ :(Hoorieh Gerami (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman ﺷﯿﺮوﯾﮫ ﺑﺮ اﺳﺎس ﻣﺘﻦ ﺑﺮﺟﺎی ﻣﺎﻧﺪه در ﺷﺎھﻨﺎﻣﮥ ﻓﺮدوﺳﯽ و ﻣﻨﺎﺑﻊ ﻋﺮﺑﯽ Maia Sakhokia (Ilia State University): Towards Rhetorical Typology in Iranian Literary Tradition (Achaemenians and Shahnameh) Shodimuhammad Sufiev (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): Images and Motifs of Wine in the Persian Literature: Evolution of Meaning

Room 3: Armenians in the Persianate World: Medieval Entanglements Chair: TBA Sergio La Porta (California State University, Fresno): A Christian Sufi in Medieval Kesaria Zara Pogossian (Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, ERC-Project JewsEast): Networks of Power and Female Agency in Seljuq and Mongol Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee): Women and Warfare in ʿAbbasid Armenia

Tea Break: 15:30 – 16:00

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Session 2.4: 16:00 – 17:30 Room 1: Hermeneutics of Classical Persian Poetry Chair: TBA Sajedeh Sadat Hosseini (University of Arizona): The Alchemy of Turning Dust to Gold Austin O'Malley (University of Arizona): What’s in a Name?: Spiritual Authority and ʿAṭṭâr’s Medicinal Poetics طﻨﺰﮔﺎه ﻓﻠﮏ: ﻧﮕﺎھﯽ ﺑﮫ طﻨﺰ ﻧﻈﺎﻣﯽ در ﺧﺴﺮو و ﺷﯿﺮﯾﻦ و ﻟﯿﻠﯽ و ﻣﺠﻨﻮن :(Afsaneh Ghiasvand (Arak University ﺗﻌﺎﻣﻞ زﻧﺎن و ﻗﺪرت ﺑﺎ ﻧﮕﺎھﯽ ﺑﮫ ﺷﺨﺼﯿﺖ ﺳﻮداﺑﮫ و زﻟﯿﺨﺎ :(Hanieh Rouhani Nejad (Tehran University

Room 2: Genealogy and Sacred Histories among the Ismailis of Badakhshan Chair: D Gershon Lewental (Shalem College) Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University): ʿUmar Yumgī and Narratives of Ruler Conversion in the Ismāʿīlī Shīʿī Tradition Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey): The Genealogical Tradition of Sayyid Muḥammad Isfahānī (Shāh Kāshān) in Shughnan, Badakhshan Umed Mamadsherzodshoev (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan): The Nasab-nāmah Tradition of Shah Malang in Badakhshan

Room 3: Iranian-Georgian Relations in Literature and Politics Chair: Tamar Demetrashvili (Ilia State University) Natia Dundua (Ilia State University): Persian Manuscripts in Georgian Script (S-16, H-2290) Preserved at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts Irakli Paghava (Ilia State University): Monetary Challenges of State-Building at the Former Safavid Periphery: Georgian Experience George Sanikidze (Ilia State University): Iranian-Georgian Interactions during the Safavid Era: a European Perspective

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Session 2.5: Room 1: 18:00 – 19:00

Keynote: Dariush Borbor (Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies)

Dargāhqolī Xān Ẑolqadr-e Bōrbōr: A Historical Indo-Iranian Relationship

19:30 - 21:00: JPS Editorial Board Meeting (Closed session) at Park Hotel

Day Three: Friday 13 March 2020 Session 3.1: 9:00 – 10:30 Room 1: Sufism, Shrines and Society Chair: Salma Farooqui (Maulana Azad National Urdu University) Saïd Amir Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook): Further Thoughts on the Emergence and Development of Persianate Sufism: Khorasan, 9th-12th Centuries Anurag Advani (University of California Berkeley): Sufism and Madness in Late Sixteenth Century Mughal India ﻣﺤﺒﻮﺑﯿﺖ ﻣﯿﺮ ﺳﯿّﺪ ﻋﻠﯽ ھﻤﺪﻧﯽ در ﺧﺘﻼن :(Khotam Asozoda (Historical Museum of Kulob, Tajikistan Sarah Kuehn (CNRS): Spiritual Ecology: The Veneration of ‘Sacred’ Animals at Sufi Shrines in Bangladesh

Room 2: Early Modern Persianate Literary Culture Chair: Jane Mikkelson (University of Chicago) Ali B. Langroudi (University of Göttingen): Jerome Xavier and the Annotated Persian Gospels Fateme Montazeri (University of California, Berkeley): Contempt for Hafiz? A Forgotten Historical Approach Stephan Popp (Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna): The Development of Rhetoric Strategies in Mughal Epistolography

Room 3: Pre-Islamic Iran in History and Memory Chair: Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee)

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زﯾﺒﺎﯾﯽھﺎی ﻧﻤﺎﯾﺸﯽ و ِادﺑﯽ ارتﯾﺸﺖ :(Masoumeh Bagheri (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman Leonardo Gregoratti (University of Durham): The Geographical Border of Tacitus’ Narration D Gershon Lewental (Shalem College): Sāsānian War Elephants and Islamic Historical Memory Dan Shapira (Bar Ilan University): Kay-Kaus, Yima-Jamshid, and Solomon-Suleiman: New Lights

Tea Break: 10:30 – 10:45 Session 3.2: 10:45 – 12:15 Room 1: Mughal Historiography, Politics and Culture Chair: Najaf Haider (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University): Production of Imperial Historiography and Emperor Shah Jahan زﺑﺎن ﻓﺎرﺳﯽ و اﺻﻄﻼﺣﺎت دﯾﻮاﻧﯽ در ﺷﺐ :(Soraya Panahi (Academy of Persian Language and Literature ﻗﺎره ﻋﺼﺮ اﮐﺒﺮﺷﺎه ﮔﻮرﮐﺎﻧﯽ

Vikas Rathee (Central University of Punjab): A War of Succession for the Mughal throne (1658) as Described in Muhammad Saleh Kamboh's Shah Jahan Nama Genichi Tsuge (Tokyo University of the Arts): Music in the Bābur-Nāma: Reexamination of the Timurid Musical Terms and Musical Instruments Accounted by Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad (1483- 1530)

Room 2: From Afghanistan to Khotan: Studies of the Earliest Persian Writings Chair: Arezou Azad (University of Oxford) Arezou Azad (University of Oxford ): The Making of a Perso-Islamic Legal Tradition: Evidence from the 11th-13th Century Balkh-Bamiyan Region Pejman Firoozbakhsh (University of Hamburg): An Unknown Persian Epic Poem from the 11th Century CE Ofir Haim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): From Bamiyan to Jerusalem: The Collection of Documents from Afghanistan in the National Library of Israel Zhan Zhang (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University): Embryonic New Persian: Evidence from Late Eighth-century Khotan

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Room 3: The Thought and Writings of the Persian Exile Mīrzā ‘Abbās-i Nūrī, Known as ‘Abdu’l- Bahā (d. 1921) Chair: Omid Ghaemmaghami (SUNY Binghamton) Sasha Dehghani (Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies, FSU Jena): The Secret of Divine Civilization: Religion, Reform, and Peace Steven Phelps (Independent Scholar): “A Science of the Spirit”: ‘Abdu’l-Bahā and the Emergence of a New Religious Sensibility Robert Stockman (Wilmette Institute): The Sojourns of `Abdu'l-Bahá `Abbás in Europe and North America Mina Yazdani (Eastern Kentucky University): An Exile on Political Philosophy

Lunch Break: 12:15 – 14:00

Session 3.3: 14:00 – 15:30 Room 1: Medieval Persianate Culture and China: Chinese Inspirations in Persian Manuscripts, Paintings and Texts Chair: Zhan Zhang (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) Manuel Giardino (University of Cambridge): Conceptual Confluences between Iran and China: Medicine, Religion and Cosmology Shutong Liu (University of Oxford): Linking Arts of Persia and China: Chinese Elements in Ilkhanid Paintings Andrew Peacock (University of St. Andrews): China in Qarakhanid Persianate Culture and Literature Ilse Sturkenboom (University of St. Andrews): Origin and Meaning of 'Chinese' Paper in Timurid, Turkmen and Safavid Manuscripts

Room 2: Aspects of Shiʿi Thought in Iran and Central Asia Chair: Daniel Beben (Nazarbayev University) Alessandro Cancian (Institute of Ismaili Studies): Mysticism, Power and Authority in Early Modern Iranian Shiʿi Sufism: The Jurists and the Mystics in nineteenth-century Niʿmatullāhī Literature

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Maria De Cillis (Institute of Ismaili Studies): The Debate on qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar in the Iranian School of Ismaili Philosophical Theology: Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Perspective Dagikhudo Dagiev (Institute of Ismaili Studies): The Ismāʿīlī Hierarchy - Ḥudūd al-Dīn in the Context of Central Asia Louise Marlow (Wellesley College): Translation and Diffusion of the Words of ʿAli in Fourteenth- Century Isfahan

Room 3: Medicine and Society in Qajar and Pahlavi Iran Chair: TBA Irine Natchkebia (Ilia State University): Some Data by Napoleon's Envoys about Medicine and Hygiene in Persia (1806-1809) Afarin Tavakoli (Yazd University): Saving the Motherland: Women’s Health Care during the Reign of Reza Shah (1926-1941)

Tea Break: 15:30 – 16:00

Session 3.4: 16:00 – 17:30 Room 1: Keynote Speech Muzaffar Alam (University of Chicago): Title TBA

General Assembly: 17:30 - 18:30

Banquet: 19:30 – 22:00 at Park Hotel

Day Four: Saturday 14 March 2020 Optional excursion to Humayun’s Tomb and Nizamuddin shrine complex. Buses will leave from the Park Hotel at 10:00, will return at approximately 14:00

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