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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
Shabnam Golkhandan (University of Toronto) – The Local Iteration of a Global Phenomenon: The Technological Wonder of Perso-India Transfer Lithography
Leila Moselmi-Mehni (University of Toronto) – Unveiling Satire: The Abbas Tawfigh Personal Archive and the Legacy of Tawfiq Magazine
