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Rethinking History: Archives and Documents from Iran, Afghanistan and the Wider Islamicate East (Medieval) I: Methodologies and New Approaches
 

Organiser: Arezou Azad (University of Oxford and Inalco, Paris)

Chair: Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto)

Emad al-Din Shaykh ol-Hokamayi (Tehran University) - Ṣarīḥ al-Milk and the Surviving Documents from the Mausoleum of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili [in Persian]

Mateen Arghandehpour (University of Oxford) - Damage as Evidence: Some Indications of Archival Practices in the Firuzkuh Papers

Edward Shawe-Taylor (University of Oxford) - Power in New Persian: A Palaeographic Survey of Chancery Documents from the Firuzkuh Papers

 

Rethinking History: Archives and Documents from Iran, Afghanistan and the Wider Islamicate East (Medieval) II: Legal and Administrative Systems

 

Organiser: Arezou Azad (University of Oxford and Inalco, Paris)

Chair: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (University of Toronto)

Said Reza Huseini (University of Cambridge) - Taxation and Fiscal Administration in Umayyad Khurasan: Challenging a Narrative

Nabi Saqee (University of Oxford) - The Role and Position of the Muʿtamid in the Ghurid State, Based on Firuzkuh Papers

Ryoko Watabe (University of Tokyo) - The Role of Persian Documents in the Mongol ruling Society: The Aduchi Family Documents form the Ḥaram al-Sharīf Archive

 

Rethinking History: Documents from Iran, Afghanistan and the Wider Islamicate East (Modern)

Organiser: Muhamad Tavakoli-Targhi (University of Toronto)

Chair: Arezou Azad (University of Oxford and Inalco, Paris)

Jennifer Jenkins (University of Toronto) - Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office

Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi (University of Toronto) - The Making of Tavakoli-Jenkins Archive

More upcoming events

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Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents (monthly)

16 October 2026 to 27 August 2027
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Abdallah S. Kamel Lecture Series at Yale University

03 December 2026 to 04 December 2026