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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
