Hybride lecture by Daniel Beben | NazarbayevUniversity

Abstract

While genealogical texts were a common form of documentation throughout the pre-modern Persianate world, these texts to date have received relatively little attention within scholarship, save for a few narrow avenues of research into areas such as dynastic legitimacy. Anthropological studies in the fields of genealogy and kinship have suggested a number of promising approaches for historical research that advance beyond strictly empiricist methods. In this presentation we will examine several case studies of recent research involving genealogical texts from the Persianate tradition that illustrate the wide range of research queries that can be addressed using such sources.

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Campus of the University of Vienna
Department of Near Eastern Studies' Auditorium

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This is the eighth lecture in the webinar series for the academic year 2025-26, this year organised by the NoMansLand research project (FWF Y 1232) dedicated to the study of Islamic manuscripts in pre-modern Iran and Central Asia in collaboration with the Institut für Orientalistik (Universität Wien) as part of the Lecture series "Beyond the Codex: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Manuscript Cultures."

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