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  • Read more about event Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
    Fri 26.06.

    Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road

    Lecture Series
  • Read more about event MS Punjab 1557: The First Revision of Ṭūsī's Akhlāq-i Nāsirī
    Thu 25.06.

    MS Punjab 1557: The First Revision of Ṭūsī's Akhlāq-i Nāsirī

    NoMansLand Webinar Series in collab with the PMA Talks
  • Read more about event Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia
    Thu 25.06. 2 days

    Preaching and Preachers as Brokers of (Inter) Communal Dynamics across Late Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia

    International Conference
  • Read more about event Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia
    Wed 24.06.

    Music in the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia

    Lecture Series
  • Read more about event ‘Ali Akbar Khata’i’s Book of China: Chinese qanun as a model of political reform in the Ottoman Empire
    Mon 22.06.

    ‘Ali Akbar Khata’i’s Book of China: Chinese qanun as a model of political reform in the Ottoman Empire

    IFI Guest lecture
  • Read more about event Kulal Tepa Archaeological Survey: A story of one valley in the Kugitang foothills, Uzbekistan
    Mon 08.06.

    Kulal Tepa Archaeological Survey: A story of one valley in the Kugitang foothills, Uzbekistan

    Webinar Talk on Material History
  • Read more about event Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research
    Thu 04.06. 3 days

    Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research

    International Conference
  • Read more about event Center in Motion: The Caucasus Beyond Peripheries
    Thu 28.05. 2 days

    Center in Motion: The Caucasus Beyond Peripheries

    International Symposium
  • Read more about event Great Seljuq traditions under the Ilkhanids and Timurids: the case of the Testament of Niẓām al-Mulk
    Thu 21.05.

    Great Seljuq traditions under the Ilkhanids and Timurids: the case of the Testament of Niẓām al-Mulk

    NoMansLand Webinar Series in collab with the PMA Talks
  • Read more about event Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire
    Tue 19.05.

    Anxious Ancestors: Temple Destruction, Ruler Conversion, and the Contest over Sacred Power in the Mongol Empire

    IFI Guest lecture
  • Read more about event Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia Part II
    Wed 13.05.

    Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia Part II

    Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations
  • Read more about event Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian - Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World
    Thu 16.04.

    Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian - Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World

    Book talk
  • Read more about event Iran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)
    Tue 14.04. 3 days

    Iran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)

    International Workshop
  • Read more about event Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond
    Tue 14.04. 3 days

    Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond

    Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations | International Conference
  • Read more about event Nilab Saeedi - Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī
    Tue 24.03.

    Nilab Saeedi - Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī

    Book talk
  • Read more about event The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)
    Wed 18.03. 2 days

    The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)

    An International Conference
  • Read more about event Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire
    Wed 04.03.

    Scripts, Languages and the State in the Mongol Empire

    Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations
  • Read more about event Writing the Void: On the Methods and Ethics of Constructing the Memory of Absent Armenian Heritage within Ottoman Architectural and Social Histories: The Case of Early Ottoman Amasya
    Thu 19.02.

    Writing the Void: On the Methods and Ethics of Constructing the Memory of Absent Armenian Heritage within Ottoman Architectural and Social Histories: The Case of Early Ottoman Amasya

  • Read more about event Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia
    Thu 05.02. 2 days

    Irrigation Technologies and Water Management across Eurasia

    Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations
  • Read more about event Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian
    Thu 29.01.

    Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian

    IFI Guest lecture
  • Read more about event How to Read a Genealogical Text: the Persianate Nasab Tradition as Cultural Archive and Social Practice
    Wed 21.01.

    How to Read a Genealogical Text: the Persianate Nasab Tradition as Cultural Archive and Social Practice

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Modern Persian Literature
    Thu 15.01. 2 days

    Modern Persian Literature

    Second European Roundtable
  • Read more about event Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan
    Wed 14.01.

    Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Scribes Without Scriptoria: Towards a Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
    Wed 17.12.

    Scribes Without Scriptoria: Towards a Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Elite Translation Projects in the Tulip Period: Material Evidence and Cultural Context
    Wed 10.12.

    Elite Translation Projects in the Tulip Period: Material Evidence and Cultural Context

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran
    Fri 28.11.

    Peeling Back the Layers: How Qanāt Lines Shaped the Landscape and Vice Versa in Iran

    Lecture Series: Irrigation Technologies and Water Management Across Eurasia
  • Read more about event A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts
    Wed 26.11.

    A Thousand and One Arabic Medical Manuscripts

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary: Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-1655)
    Wed 12.11.

    Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary: Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-1655)

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Doing business in Turkestan: labour, networks, institutions
    Thu 30.10. 2 days

    Doing business in Turkestan: labour, networks, institutions

    Research workshop
    "Le vestibule d'un riche marchand de Tachkent", aus dem Buch "A travers le Turkestan Russe" von Dujardin - 1902 - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany - CC0.
  • Read more about event Towards a new agenda for ceramic studies and related fields in Central Asia
    Thu 30.10. 2 days

    Towards a new agenda for ceramic studies and related fields in Central Asia

    Central Asian Pottery Network (CAPN) – First Meeting
  • Read more about event The Question of Authorship and Religious Authority in Alevi Manuscripts
    Wed 29.10.

    The Question of Authorship and Religious Authority in Alevi Manuscripts

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Was There an Ottoman Decline?
    Wed 15.10.

    Was There an Ottoman Decline?

    A JESHO International Workshop
     Illustration from the French magazine Le Petit Journal on the Bosnian Crisis: Bulgaria declares its independence and its prince Ferdinand is named Tsar, Austria-Hungary, in the person of Emperor Francis Joseph, annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II looks on helplessly
  • Read more about event Yaḥyā b. Ādam’s (d. 203/818) Kitāb al-kharāj (Paris, BnF Arabe 6030) revisited: Reflections on the textual and editorial history of an early Islamic compilation of legal ḥadīth
    Wed 15.10.

    Yaḥyā b. Ādam’s (d. 203/818) Kitāb al-kharāj (Paris, BnF Arabe 6030) revisited: Reflections on the textual and editorial history of an early Islamic compilation of legal ḥadīth

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Circulation, Collection, and Cultural Dynamics of Islamic Manuscripts in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (8-16th C.)
    Wed 24.09. 2 days

    Circulation, Collection, and Cultural Dynamics of Islamic Manuscripts in the Pre-Modern Islamic World (8-16th C.)

  • Read more about event Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia
    Wed 04.06. 3 days

    Translation and Multilingualism in Mongol and Post-Mongol Eurasia

    International workshop
  • Read more about event The Ottoman reception of the Nuzhat al-Qulūb (c. 1340), a Persian encyclopaedic work by Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī
    Tue 06.05.

    The Ottoman reception of the Nuzhat al-Qulūb (c. 1340), a Persian encyclopaedic work by Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event A Sufi Mathnavī from the Golden Horde: The Case Study of the Qalandar-nāma (Ms. Tashkent 11668)
    Wed 26.03.

    A Sufi Mathnavī from the Golden Horde: The Case Study of the Qalandar-nāma (Ms. Tashkent 11668)

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event A PROFILE OF AN IRANIAN STATESMAN: SEPAHDAR RASHTI’S ROLE IN THE TWO KEY EVENTS THAT HELPED SHAPE MODERN IRAN
    Wed 26.02.

    A PROFILE OF AN IRANIAN STATESMAN: SEPAHDAR RASHTI’S ROLE IN THE TWO KEY EVENTS THAT HELPED SHAPE MODERN IRAN

    IFI International Guest lecture
  • Read more about event Unveiling Forgotten Verses: A Study of Ḥusām al-Dīn Khūyī's Works in the Tübingen Manuscript
    Tue 18.02.

    Unveiling Forgotten Verses: A Study of Ḥusām al-Dīn Khūyī's Works in the Tübingen Manuscript

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Alevi and Bektashi Manuscript Traditions: A methodological overview
    Tue 10.12.

    Alevi and Bektashi Manuscript Traditions: A methodological overview

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Literary Modernity in the Persophone Realm
    Wed 27.11.

    Literary Modernity in the Persophone Realm

    Bert Fragner Lecture 2024
  • Read more about event Safekeeping Ancient Knowledge: The Life Journey of a Medieval Mathematical Manuscript from Ilkhanid Maragha to Safavid Iran
    Tue 12.11.

    Safekeeping Ancient Knowledge: The Life Journey of a Medieval Mathematical Manuscript from Ilkhanid Maragha to Safavid Iran

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Manuscript Collections across Eurasia
    Thu 07.11. 2 days

    Manuscript Collections across Eurasia

    Workshop
  • Read more about event The Origin and Early History of the Ghorid Dynasty
    Tue 05.11.

    The Origin and Early History of the Ghorid Dynasty

    IFI Guest lecture
  • Read more about event Transitioning out of the Timurid period: the origins of Abū’l-Khairid arts of the book ca. 1490–1520
    Tue 29.10.

    Transitioning out of the Timurid period: the origins of Abū’l-Khairid arts of the book ca. 1490–1520

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event History, Memory, and the uses of the past in Asia
    Wed 16.10.

    History, Memory, and the uses of the past in Asia

    A JESHO International Workshop
  • Read more about event Next of Kin
    Thu 10.10. 2 days

    Next of Kin

    An International Symposium on Indo-Iranian Comparative and Historical Linguistics, Philology and Religious Studies
  • Read more about event Living in and with cultural heritage
    Mon 30.09. 11 days

    Living in and with cultural heritage

    Summer Academy in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) 2024
  • Read more about event PAHLAVI PAPYRI IN CONTEXT
    Wed 25.09. 3 days

    PAHLAVI PAPYRI IN CONTEXT

    Workshop
  • Read more about event The Cultural History of Late Pahlavi Iran
    Thu 04.07. 2 days

    The Cultural History of Late Pahlavi Iran

    International workshop
  • Read more about event Central Asian Manuscripts: Institutional collaborations and research
    Mon 27.05. 4 days

    Central Asian Manuscripts: Institutional collaborations and research

    Round Table/International Conference in Uzbekistan
  • Read more about event Lange Nacht der Forschung 2024
    Fri 24.05.

    Lange Nacht der Forschung 2024

    Iranistik bei der LNF 2024
  • Read more about event Before the Shahnameh: partial versions echoed in mural paintings in Sistan and Sogdiana
    Wed 15.05.

    Before the Shahnameh: partial versions echoed in mural paintings in Sistan and Sogdiana

    IFI International Guest Lecture
  • Read more about event Persian Inshāʾ from Khurasan to Anatolia: A Glimpse through the Mar‘ashī Manuscript 11136
    Tue 16.04.

    Persian Inshāʾ from Khurasan to Anatolia: A Glimpse through the Mar‘ashī Manuscript 11136

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mughal Studies
    Fri 15.03.

    A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mughal Studies

    A symposium & exhibition in honour of Professor Ebba Koch’s scholarly work
  • Read more about event The Samāʿ and Futuwwa in Ilkhanid Erzincan: Contextualizing the Multiple Compilation, MS Ayasofya 2049
    Tue 12.03.

    The Samāʿ and Futuwwa in Ilkhanid Erzincan: Contextualizing the Multiple Compilation, MS Ayasofya 2049

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Medieval Bardhaʿa: bridging Iran and the Caucasus?
    Fri 01.03.

    Medieval Bardhaʿa: bridging Iran and the Caucasus?

    Webinar series: Trans-local perspectives in Iranian worlds
  • Read more about event an unidentified princely edition of the tārīkh-i vaṣṣāf
    Tue 13.02.

    an unidentified princely edition of the tārīkh-i vaṣṣāf

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Rural communities in the Sasanian Empire - Excavations in Qalrakh and Kazhaw in Iraqi Kurdistan
    Tue 30.01.

    Rural communities in the Sasanian Empire - Excavations in Qalrakh and Kazhaw in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Webinar series: Trans-local perspectives in Iranian worlds
  • Read more about event THE ACHAEMENID-PERSIAN EMPIRE AT ITS HEYDAY? THE ERA BETWEEN DARIUS II AND DARIUS III
    Wed 29.11. 3 days

    THE ACHAEMENID-PERSIAN EMPIRE AT ITS HEYDAY? THE ERA BETWEEN DARIUS II AND DARIUS III

    Farhad Ebrahimi Workshop
  • Read more about event SOVEREIGNTY IN THE HISTORY OF ASIA
    Mon 27.11.

    SOVEREIGNTY IN THE HISTORY OF ASIA

    A JESHO International Workshop
  • Read more about event Visualising Persian History: the illustration of Persian manuscript histories
    Tue 21.11. 36 days

    Visualising Persian History: the illustration of Persian manuscript histories

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event The dominance of the 'Silk Road' and searching for a non-elite narrative: challenges in writing the economic history of Kushan Central Asia
    Tue 14.11.

    The dominance of the 'Silk Road' and searching for a non-elite narrative: challenges in writing the economic history of Kushan Central Asia

    Webinar series: Trans-local perspectives in Iranian worlds
  • Read more about event Collation Culture in Pre-Modern Islam: The Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbāʾ
    Tue 17.10.

    Collation Culture in Pre-Modern Islam: The Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbāʾ

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts
    Mon 03.07. 5 days

    Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts

    Summer school in cooperation with Central European University (CEU)
  • Read more about event Mongoles en el Oeste
    Wed 17.05. 2 days

    Mongoles en el Oeste

    International conference Madrid
  • Read more about event Persianate Poetics and “Poetic Cinema”: The Soviet Literary Biopic Before and After Parajanov
    Wed 03.05.

    Persianate Poetics and “Poetic Cinema”: The Soviet Literary Biopic Before and After Parajanov

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 7
  • Read more about event International Actors and the Question of Iranian Child Carpet Weavers in the Early 20th Century
    Mon 24.04.

    International Actors and the Question of Iranian Child Carpet Weavers in the Early 20th Century

    IFI Guest lecture
  • Read more about event The Planetary King. Humayun Padshah: Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne
    Tue 18.04.

    The Planetary King. Humayun Padshah: Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne

    Buchpräsentation des neuen Buches von Ebba Koch
    Statuen Humayuns, gekleidet in den Farben der Planeten, von Jill Watson, 2021 (Bronze, Ölfarben, Höhe 47cm), Foto: Keith Hunter. © Aga Khan Trust for Culture
  • Read more about event Strange Times in the City of Herat: Peculiarity as Historiographical Methodology in a Medieval Islamic Manuscript
    Tue 11.04. 365 days

    Strange Times in the City of Herat: Peculiarity as Historiographical Methodology in a Medieval Islamic Manuscript

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Astronomy in the Ilkhanate: The Early Manuscript Tradition of al-Ṭūsī's Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī
    Tue 14.03. 365 days

    Astronomy in the Ilkhanate: The Early Manuscript Tradition of al-Ṭūsī's Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European: Historical and theoretical perspectives
    Fri 10.03. 2 days

    Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European: Historical and theoretical perspectives

    International workshop
  • Read more about event Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Memory between Asia Minor and Karabakh
    Wed 08.03.

    Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Memory between Asia Minor and Karabakh

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 6
  • Read more about event Wrestling with History: An Analysis of the Karabakh Conflict in Armenian and Azerbaijani State Discourses
    Tue 28.02.

    Wrestling with History: An Analysis of the Karabakh Conflict in Armenian and Azerbaijani State Discourses

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 5
  • Read more about event Free Trade Agreements and Level Playing Fields. Britain and the Indian Ocean 1600-1757
    Mon 13.02.

    Free Trade Agreements and Level Playing Fields. Britain and the Indian Ocean 1600-1757

    Guest lecture
  • Read more about event Preaching Christianity in the Muslim Ilkhanate: On the manuscripts of Persian Bibles from Fourteenth Century Tabriz
    Tue 07.02. 365 days

    Preaching Christianity in the Muslim Ilkhanate: On the manuscripts of Persian Bibles from Fourteenth Century Tabriz

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event The Press in the 19th and 20th centuries: From Central Asia to Anatolia via Crimea and the Caucasus
    Wed 25.01.

    The Press in the 19th and 20th centuries: From Central Asia to Anatolia via Crimea and the Caucasus

    Ringvorlesung Wintersemester 2022/23
  • Read more about event Greek script in the northern Caucasus
    Wed 11.01.

    Greek script in the northern Caucasus

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 4
  • Read more about event Georgian hagiography and its development through the centuries
    Wed 14.12.

    Georgian hagiography and its development through the centuries

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 3
  • Read more about event Elisabetta Ragagnin: Minority Turkic languages in language contact situations in Iran: case studies
    Tue 06.12.

    Elisabetta Ragagnin: Minority Turkic languages in language contact situations in Iran: case studies

    Guest Lecture
  • Read more about event The Second Formation of Islamic Law in Premodern Transoxiana:Evidence from Manuscripts
    Tue 06.12. 365 days

    The Second Formation of Islamic Law in Premodern Transoxiana:Evidence from Manuscripts

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Between greater Khorasan and the Khorasan province - The continuity of Greater Khorasan in the social identity of Iranian Sunnis in Khorasan province
    Thu 01.12. 16 days

    Between greater Khorasan and the Khorasan province - The continuity of Greater Khorasan in the social identity of Iranian Sunnis in Khorasan province

    Bert Fragner Memorial Lecture 2022
  • Read more about event The Mongols' Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest
    Thu 01.12. 3 days

    The Mongols' Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest

    International Workshop
  • Read more about event Managing Iraq’s Cultural Heritage in the 20th Century: Foreign Occupations, Wars and Dictatorships
    Thu 01.12.

    Managing Iraq’s Cultural Heritage in the 20th Century: Foreign Occupations, Wars and Dictatorships

    Keynote lecture
  • Read more about event What was the secret of the success of the early modern New Julfa Armenian trade diaspora?
    Wed 16.11.

    What was the secret of the success of the early modern New Julfa Armenian trade diaspora?

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 2
  • Read more about event What is Asia to Us?
    Wed 16.11.

    What is Asia to Us?

    International Workshop: 65 years of JESHO – Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
    Julius Goltzius, Allegory of Asia, from The Four Continents, ca. 1560–1590, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, © The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.
  • Read more about event Improvised Forms: Body, Text, and Diagram in Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya's (d. 1252) Sajanjal al-arwāḥ
    Tue 15.11. 365 days

    Improvised Forms: Body, Text, and Diagram in Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya's (d. 1252) Sajanjal al-arwāḥ

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire
    Tue 25.10.

    The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire

    Lecture by Prajakti Kalra
  • Read more about event New: Journal of Central Asian History
    Mon 24.10. 2 days

    New: Journal of Central Asian History

    Launch event
  • Read more about event The Russo-Persian and Russo-Ottoman Wars and Their Impact on the Caucasus Region in the 19th Century
    Wed 12.10.

    The Russo-Persian and Russo-Ottoman Wars and Their Impact on the Caucasus Region in the 19th Century

    Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 1
  • Read more about event Oriental Manuscripts in the Saadian Collection
    Tue 11.10. 365 days

    Oriental Manuscripts in the Saadian Collection

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Astrology in Mongol Iran: foreign fascination or popular pastime?
    Tue 27.09. 370 days

    Astrology in Mongol Iran: foreign fascination or popular pastime?

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event The Byzantine Ideas of Persia
    Wed 14.09.

    The Byzantine Ideas of Persia

    Lecture by Professor Rustam Shukurov
  • Read more about event Iran Through the Ages, Persian Across Borders
    Wed 29.06.

    Iran Through the Ages, Persian Across Borders

    Internationales Symposium zum Gedenken an Bert G. Fragner
  • Read more about event Nature, Environment and Society in Eurasia
    Wed 22.06.

    Nature, Environment and Society in Eurasia

    Ringvorlesung Sommersemester 2022
  • Read more about event Qajar Persia and Persians in the work of the Armenian writer Raffi (Hakob Melik Hakobian): The Five Melikdoms of Karabagh
    Wed 15.06.

    Qajar Persia and Persians in the work of the Armenian writer Raffi (Hakob Melik Hakobian): The Five Melikdoms of Karabagh

    Gastvortrag von Professor Aldo Ferrari
  • Read more about event FROM THE COLUMNS OF HERCULES UP TO THE ARGONAUTS’ VOYAGES
    Thu 02.06.

    FROM THE COLUMNS OF HERCULES UP TO THE ARGONAUTS’ VOYAGES

    International Symposium
    © Wikimedia/Public Domain. Grynaeus, Novus Orbis Regionum (1532 Basel)
  • Read more about event Wandering artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran: state of the question and new perspectives
    Wed 11.05.

    Wandering artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran: state of the question and new perspectives

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
  • Read more about event Rian Thum: Sacred sites in Eastern Turkistan: Destruction, Transformation, and Persistence
    Thu 05.05.

    Rian Thum: Sacred sites in Eastern Turkistan: Destruction, Transformation, and Persistence

    The 5th JESHO Lecture on Asian History
  • Read more about event Local Modern: Exploring Vernacular Cultures Across Central Eurasia
    Tue 03.05. 2 days

    Local Modern: Exploring Vernacular Cultures Across Central Eurasia

    International conference
  • Read more about event Muḥammad Pārsā’s (d. 1420) library: History and overview of the collection
    Wed 13.04.

    Muḥammad Pārsā’s (d. 1420) library: History and overview of the collection

    Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
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    The significance of unpublished parts of pre-modern Histories of Iran: the case of the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh Ḥasanī

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    Thu 07.03.

    Younos Yousofvand: Communication routes trough Lorestan in the Sasanian and early Islamic period

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    Chiara Barbati: Scribal Habits. A case study from Christian Medieval Central Asia

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    Rashīd al-Dīn and Islamic Historiography

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    Tue 23.10.

    Ulfatbek Abdurasulov: Advice from a Holy Man: Ishans in 19th-Century Central Asia

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    Tue 10.07.

    Beyond Printed Sources: Medieval Manuscripts as Evidence for the History of the Persianate World

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    Thu 05.07.

    Austria and Iran: Aspects of the history of diplomatic, scientific and cultural relations

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    Sat 09.06.

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    Tue 22.05.

    Grammatica Iranica, Indo-Iranica necnon Indo-Europaea: An Austro-Italian symposium on historical and comparative morphology, word-formation and syntax

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