Day 1: Saturday 5 March
Opening Remarks
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10:00-10:15 |
Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh
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1st Session: Religion, Society and
Philosophy
Chair: Ulrike al-Khamis (National Museums of Scotland)
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Mandana Moavenat (University of
London)
- Zoroastrianism: A Perspective into the
Religion through Its
Literature
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Teresa Bernheimer (University of
Oxford)
- Study in the Social and Political
History of the ‘Alid family
in the Early ‘Abbasid Period
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| 11:30-11:45 |
Tea Break
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| 11:45-12:15 |
Catarina Belo (University of Oxford)
- The Persian Avicenna – some metaphysical themes in
the Danishnama (The Book of Knowledge)
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| 12:15-12:45 |
Denis McAuley (University of Oxford)
- A Persian “Poem of the Way” – Ibn al-Farid’s
masterpiece translated
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| 12:45-14:00 |
LUNCH
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| 14:00-15:00 |
Visit to the Edinburgh Library Manuscripts
Collection
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2nd Session: History and Literature
Chair: Carole Hillenbrand (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Songül Mecit (University of Edinburgh)
- The influence of the Seljuqs on the Iranian World
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Abdul Iloliev (University of Cambridge)
- Persian Mystical Poetry and Pamiri Isma‛ili Tradition
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| 16:00-16:15 |
Tea Break
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| 16:15-16:45 |
Evangelos Venetis (University of Edinburgh)
- Aspects of Kingship in the Iskandarnama
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| 16:45-17:15 |
Saeko Inouchi (University of Edinburgh)
- The Value of Comparative Analysis:
The Case of al-Munqidh min al-dalal by al-Ghazali
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| 19:00 - …. |
DINNER
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| Day 2: Sunday, 6 March
3rd Session: Painting
Chair: Robert Hillenbrand (History of Art)
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| 09:30-10:00 |
Iana Bejaniyska (University of Edinburgh)
- Gesture and Emotion in Persian Painting
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Emily Shovelton (University of London)
- Persian idioms in Sultanate painting of 15th century India
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Tea Break
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4th Session: Decorative Arts
Chair: Ulrike al-Khamis (National Museums of Scotland)
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Melanie Gibson (SOAS, University of London)
- Breastfeeding in Ceramics
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Geraldine Zimmermann (University of Oxford)
- The Problem of Gender Differentiation of Medieval
Iranian Mina'i and Lustre Ware' (Seljuq Period)
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Rosalind Wade-Haddon (University of London)
- An Attempt to Distinguish Between Mamluk and
Iranian Fourteenth Century Underglaze Painted Wares
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| 12:30-14:00 |
LUNCH
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| 14:00-15:00 |
Visit to the Islamic Collection at the National
Museums of Scotland
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5th Session: Architecture
Chair: Robert Hillenbrand (History of Art)
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Ali Reza Anisi (University of Edinburgh)
- The Kushk-I Rahimabad at Bam
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh)
- Aspects of frescoes in 14th-century Iranian architecture:
the case of Yazd
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Closing Remarks
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| 16:00-16:15 |
Robert
Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh) |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Evangelos Venetis (University of Edinburgh) |
