Nader Shah ruled Iran from 1736-1747. A military genius, he campaigned almost non-stop in the Caucasus, Ottoman Turkey, Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, through to Mughal India, where he famously captured the Peacock Throne. His career ended with assassination at...
Abstract: The recent discovery of a group of six late 19th century Iranian oil on canvas landscape paintings and a large corpus of 19th century Iranian photographs held in a private collection outside of Iran, has provided the impetus for this lecture. The corpus of...
Prince Abbas Mirza, son of Fath Ali Shah, was Crown Prince and, as was the tradition, was Governor of Tabriz. He modernised the army and many institutions and was the first interface with visiting European envoys, who had to pass through Tabriz on their way...
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. After a B.A. in Tehran, she completed a graduate programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities at the Institute of Ismaili...
This event will be co-hosted by the Gingko Library to celebrate the publication of Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art. The articles in the first section of the book are dedicated to the arts of painting, illumination and lithography. The second section is...
‘Mirrors for Princes’ are mediaeval prose works of advice for rulers or prospective rulers on how they should exercise kingship. They were usually written by a ruler for the benefit of his son and heir, or by a high-ranking official or a senior religious scholar,...
Milan has a fabulous collection of Safavid carpets. Robert Marin, currently in England, hails from the Università Ca' Foscari of Venice. Roberta is well known to the Iran Society and to the Oriental Rug & Textile Society, having lectured to us before. She took an...
This lecture will examine Iran’s political interactions with Sub-Saharan Africa under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Much of the scholarship on Pahlavi Iran’s global interactions has focused on its relations with the West. Comparatively little attention has been paid to Iran’s relations with the countries of the...
Sevruguin, Antoin: Kashan bazaar Shahs and their courts, royal art and architectural patronage, capital cities, and dynastic histories still dominate narratives of Iran’s past. Although these narratives provide us with invaluable insight into the history of Iran, they only...
Cecil Edwards, author of the classic The Persian Carpet went to Iran in 1911 from Smyrna to open up business in Persian carpets for the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Company. Basing himself in Hamadan, he travelled all over the carpet weaving parts of Iran, taking photographs...
The talk will look at the rise of Jews in the Iranian public sphere between 1900 and 1925, starting with a background of the conditions faced by Iranian Jews in the nineteenth century and their involvement and interest in the Constitutional Revolution. This would include...
This event will be to celebrate the publication of this lavishly illustrated book by Barbara Brend, independent scholar of Persian art. The Khamseh is a set of five poems by the 12th century poet Nizami. They recount the story of the love of the Sasanian...
