Iran After the Mongols

Sussan Babaie is Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has previously taught and resesarched at Smith College, the University of Michigan and as the Allianz Visiting Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.Her exhibitions include the guest-curated Strolling in Isfahan at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University and she is the co-editor of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and the award-winning monograph, Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran.

The Idea of Iran
George Lane, SOAS

Concepts of Government and State Formation in Mongol Iran
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge

Beyond History: Rashid al-Din and Iranian Kingship
Stefan Kamola, Eastern Connecticut State University


A Glimpse into the Unique Manuscript, the Safineh from Tabriz
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden University

Images of Iranian Kingship on Secular Ilkhanid Tiles
Tomoko Masuya, University of Tokyo

Applying a Diachronic Perspective in Reconstructing Precedents for the Illustrations in the Great Mongol Shahnama
Olga M. Davidson, Boston University

The Mausoleum of Uljaytu and the Citadel of Sul'aniyya
Marco G. Brambilla, MGBDomus

The Maragha School and its Impact on Post-Mongol Science in the Islamic world
Tofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, Riverside

The Iranian Interlude: from Mongol Decline to Tamerlane’s Invasion
Shivan Mahendrarajah, University of St. Andrews

Sufism in late Mongol and early Timurid Persia from ‘Ala’ al-Dawla Simnani (d. 736/1326) to Shah Qasim Anvar (d. 837/1434)
Leonard Lewisohn, University of Exeter

Architecture in the Interregnum: the Mozaffarid, Jalayerid and Kartid Contributions
Bernard O'Kane, American University in Cairo

Persian Narrative Poetry in the Eighth/Fourteenth - early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries and the Legacy of Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh’
Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem