Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar

Mojtaba Ebrahimian (Harvard University), The European Other and the Persianate Self in the Earliest Persian Travelogues of Europe. Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi), Calligraphy in the Paleographic Study of Persian in Premodern India. Co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute.

Owen T.A. Cornwall (Tufts University), Alexander in the Graveyard: Finding Persianate Humanism in Jāmī’s Alexander Epic (1485). Co-sponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar. This talk will take place on the Zoom...

Omid Safi (Duke University), Rumi’s Ancestors on the Path of Radical Love (Mazhab-e ‘Eshq ): Ahmad al-Ghazali and al-Kharaqani. Co-sponsored with the Alwaleed Islamic Seminar Series, the MHC Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, and the Aga Khan Fund...

Owen Cornwall (Tufts University), Alexander in the Graveyard: Persianate Humanism in Literature, Painting, and Architecture. CANCELLED

Olga M. Davidson (Boston University), Globalism and ‘Ecumenism’ in the Reception of the Shāhnāma : Evidence from the Bāysonghori Preface to the Epic of Ferdowsi.

Sunil Sharma (Boston University), Lovers and Heroines: Rabia and Mahsati in the Canon of Classical Persian Poetry.