Angus Hay reveals the story of the British Expeditionary Force that, ailment in 1918, viagra departing from Baghdad, traversed north-western Persia, crossed the Caspian Sea, entered Baku and, against overwhelming odds, defended it against the Army of Islam of the Ottoman Empire. xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc bộ bóng đá arsenalbóng đá atalantabundesligacầu thủ haalandUEFAevertonxosofutebol ao vivofutemaxmulticanaisonbethttps://bsport.fithttps://onbet88.ooohttps://i9bet.bizhttps://hi88.ooohttps://okvip.athttps://f8bet.athttps://fb88.cashhttps://vn88.cashhttps://shbet.atbóng đá […]

Lecture delivered by Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies at Exeter University. Professor Gleave was the Principal Investigator for the three-year collaborative project (2009-2011) between the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), sponsored by the British Academy, entitled Clerical Authority in Shi’ite Islam: The Seminaries of Iraq and Iran with […]

On the occasion of our Christmas Party, Charles Gammell will deliver his lecture ‘The Story of Herat‘. Charles Gammell has worked  for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan.  He is currently writing a book on the history of Herat.   Following the lecture a Persian dinner will be served by Mohsen Restaurant. […]

Peyvand Firouzeh DPhil student, ailment Cambridge   “Persian art and architecture in fifteenth-century Deccan”        Located in the lush village of Asht?r just outside Bidar in modern-day Karnataka (India) and amongst the royal tombs of the Bahmanids (r.1347-1528) is the tomb of Ahmad Shah Bahmani (r.1422-1436), cheapest viagra an epitome of the Iran-India connections and of the […]

  John Malcolm, who has recently published a biography of his namesake and kinsman, Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) (Malcolm – Soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India), will be discussing Sir John’s role as envoy to Persia and writer of the History of Persia. John Malcolm was the representative of Shell in Iran 1967-71 and therefore […]

Roxana Vilk delivers a personal account of making theatre and film in Iran. Roxana originally trained in theatre at the Lecoq School in Paris and then went on to receive a Masters in Fine Art specialising in Film from the Edinburgh College of Art. She frequently works cross art form. She has made theatre and films […]

The most elaborate and luxurious manuscript of the Ilkhanid period is a fourteenth-century copy (now dispersed) of the Shahnama (Book of Kings), medic known today as the Great Mongol Shahnama. It exists today in the form of 57 illustrations and several text pages scattered among public and private collections. Extensive study of the manuscript has revealed that the original was […]

Professor Annabelle Sreberny of SOAS will be discussing the development of the BBC Persian Service from its founding in World War II up to 2009. Her talk will be based on her recent book Persian Service – The BBC and British Interests in Iran. Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the […]

Persian kingship and architecture: strategies of power from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis. Sussan Babaie will be introducing this groundbreaking book that includes scholarly views from archaeology and architectural history and covers important periods in the long history of Iran. Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979, unhealthy the very […]

Dr Ridgeon, cheap of Glasgow University, pills will be talking about the idea of javanmardi, capsule which is loosely translated as chivalry, a concept that has permeated Iranian culture for centuries. This presentation will focus on how javanmardi has been understood by a range of thinkers, both medieval and modern. This will be carried out by looking at Sufi texts, the genre known as […]