Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Middle Eastern history and literature, with a focus on the 12th and 14th centuries
- Persian historiography and the rhetorical uses of poetry in political discourse
- Manuscript culture and transmission of historical texts in the Persianate world
- Codicology and the study of marginalia, paratexts, and colophons
- The intersection of historiography, ideology, and imperial identity in the Ilkhanid and post-Ilkhanid periods
- Textual production and patronage networks in Mongol and post-Mongol Iran
Laufende Projekte
In the Nomads' Manuscripts Landscape project at the Institute of Iranian Studies (research section "The Cultural and Social History of the Premodern Period"), my work focuses on the collection and organization of manuscript data, with particular attention to bibliographic and codicological details. I am responsible for entering this material into the project database and for composing descriptive entries on authors, works, and manuscripts. These descriptions aim to situate each item within its historical and intellectual context while attending to issues of transmission, authorship, and materiality. This work contributes to the broader goals of the project by making a dispersed corpus of sources more accessible for future research.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- Mirahmadi, Sara. “Legitimising the Khan: Rashid al-Din's Ideological Project from a Literary Aspect.” IRAN: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 61(2), 2021, pp. 221–234. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05786967.2021.1889929
- Mirahmadi, Sara. “Power of Poetry in a King’s Court.” IIAS Newsletter, 95, 2023. www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/power-poetry-kings-court
- Ghazanfari, Kolsoum & Sara Mirahmadi. “Toponyms of the Sasanian Section of the Shahnama.” Arj-i Khirad (Tehran: Murvarid, 2017).