ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF

PERSIANATE SOCIETIES

Sixth Biennial Convention

Bosniak Institute (Bošnjački Institut)
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
September 2-6, 2013
New York and Sarajevo 2013
THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PERSIANATE
SOCIETIES

OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Parvaneh Pourshariati
The Ohio State University
VICE PRESIDENT
Jo-Ann Gross
The College of New Jersey
TREASURER
Paul Losensky
Indiana University

PAST-PRESIDENT
Rudi Matthee
University of Delaware

FOUNDER & PAST-PRESIDENT

Said Amir Arjomand
SUNY Stony Brook
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Pooriya Alimoradi
University of Toronto

Sussan Babaie
The Courtauld Institute of Art

Snježana Buzov
The Ohio State University

Houchang Chehabi, ex officio

Boston University

Ghazzal Dabiri
Columbia University

Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli

South Asia Regional Director

Florian Schwarz
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Iranian Studies
Mamadsho Ilolov
Central Asia Regional Director
Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan

George Sanikidze
Central Asia Regional Director
Inst. of Oriental Studies, Georgia

Sunil Sharma
Boston University

Ahmed Zildžić
Balkans Regional Director
The Oriental Institute, Sarajevo
REGIONAL BRANCH DIRECTORS

ARMENIA

Garnik Asatrian
Caucasian Center for Iranian Studies
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia

BALKANS

Ahmed Zildžić
The Oriental Institute
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

COUNCIL FOR EURASIA

Florian Schwarz
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Vienna, Austria

GEORGIA
George Sanikidze
Institute of Oriental Studies
Tbilisi, Georgia

INDIA
Isthtiyaq Ahmad Zilli
Aligarh Muslim University
Aligarh, India
 IRAN
Kourosh Kamali
Fars Encyclopedia
Shiraz, Iran

PAKISTAN
Muhammad Saleem Mazhar
University of the Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan

TAJIKISTAN
Lola Dodkhudoeva
I nstitute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage
Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Umed Mamadsherzodshoev
Institute of Humanities, Tajik Academy of Sciences
Khorog, Tajikistan
 ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Chair

Parvaneh Pourshariati (The Ohio State University)

US ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pooriya Alimoradi (University of Toronto)

Said Amir Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook)
Ariana Barkeshli (Dutchess Community College)
Snježana Buzov (The Ohio State University)
Ghazzal Dabiri (Columbia University)
Saghi Gazerani (Journal of Persianate Studies)
Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey)
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Maryland)
Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware)

HOST ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ahmed Zildžić (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)

Snježana Buzov (The Ohio State University)
Amina Rizvanbegović-Džuvić (The Bosniak Institute)
Behija Zlatar (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)
Munir Drkić (University of Sarajevo)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Ariana Barkeshli (Dutchess Community College)

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Tarik Jesenković (Publishing Center “El-Kalem” Sarajevo)

FILM AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Golfam Ghafourifar
Université de Montréal

Sepehr Mikaeilian
Director, Crow Rex Production
 Shapoor Pourshariati
Director, Sound Productions

WEB-SITE DESIGNER

Mohammad Dolatiani

WEB-SITE ADMINISTRATOR

Pooriya Alimoradi (University of Toronto)

CONTRIBUTING ARTIST

Katayoun Vaziri

The ASPS Gratefully Acknowledges the Kind

Collaboration of

THE BOSNIAK INSTITUTE, SARAJEVO

ADIL ZULFIKARPAŠIĆ FOUNDATION

Amina Rizvanbegović-Džuvić, Director

ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, SARAJEVO

Behija Zlatar, Director

Samira Knežević, Administrative Associate
Madžida Mašić
Aida Smailbegović

GAZI HUSREV BEG LIBRARY, SARAJEV O

Mustafa Jahić, Director

 Osman Lavić, Librarian

GAZI HUSREV BEG MADRASA

Zijad Ljevaković, Director

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO

Ivo Komšić, Dean

DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PHILOLOGY, UNSA

ST. ANTHONY FRANCISCAN MONASTERY, SARAJEVO

Ivan Šarčević, OFM, Head

Petar Vidić, OFM

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

MINISTRY OF CULTURE
FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The Honorable Professor Doctor Ivo Komšić, Mayor of Sarajevo

FEDERAL MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND SPORTS

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

The Honorable Salmir Kaplan, Minister

ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SARAJEVO

Ćazim Hadžimejlić, Professor

 &
the Generous Co-Sponsorship of
The American Institute of Iranian Studies

The Iran Heritage Foundation

John Goelet Charitable Foundation

Soudavar Memorial Fund

Mr. Mehrdad Nadooshan & Ms. Nilou Safavieh

Armenian Studies Program,

University of Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Rumi Institute

Mr. Dariush Borbor

Director, Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies (RILIS)

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

The Ohio State University

Foundation for Iranian Studies

Iran Nameh

British Institute of Persian Studies

Roshan Center for Persian Studies

Mr. Gus Khamneipur

 
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
VENUES

BOSNIAC INSTITUTE (BOS) CONFERENCE ROOMS:

HAMAM (GROUND FLOOR)
CONFERENCE HALL (4TH FLOOR)
RIZVIC HALL (4TH FLOOR)

HOTEL EUROPE (EUR) CONFERENCE ROOMS:

CONFERENCE ROOM 1
CONFERENCE ROOM 2

BOSNIAN CULTURAL CENTER (BOSANSKI KULTURNI CENTAR)

GAZI HUSREV BEG LIBRARY

ST ANTHONY CHURCH , FRANCISCAN MONASTERY, BISTRIK

COFFEE BREAKS :
BOSNIAC INSTITUTE: LOUNGES 1 AND 2
HOTEL EUROPE: TERRACE

LUNCHES:
HOTEL EUROPE: VIENNESE CAFÉ (BEČKA KAFANA)
 The Sixth Biennial Congress
of
The Association for the Study of the Persianate Societies

Sarajevo/Bosnia-Herzegovina
September 2nd through September 6th, 2013

REGISTRATION
Venue: Lobby Hotel Europe

Ongoing Exhibitions, September 3rd -5th:

BOSNIAC INSTITUTE’S PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT EXHIBITION

Venue: Bosniac Institute

GAZI HUSREV BEG LIBRARY’S PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT EXHIBITION (12:00-14:00)

Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Library

GAZI HUSREV BEG LIBRARY’S MUSEUM (12:00-14:00)

Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Library

EXHIBITION OF SARAJEVAN CALLIGRAPHY

Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Khaneqah  

BOOK EXHIBIT
Venue: Bosniac Institute
 MONDAY, SEPT. 2ND
 

9:00-12:00: MIDDLE PERSIAN WORKSHOP

Venue: Eur Conference 1

14:00-17:00: MIDDLE PERSIAN WORKSHOP

Venue: Eur Conference 1

18:00-20:00: ASPS INAUGURAL CEREMONIES

Venue: Bosniac Cultural Center

Master of Ceremonies:
Said Amir Arjomand, SUNY Stony Brook

Speakers:
His Excellency Salmir Kaplan, Minister of Culture, Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Ivo Komšić, Major of Sarajevo
Amina Rizvanbegović-Džuvić, Director of Bosniac Institute
Snježana Buzov, Ohio State University
Ahmed Zildžić, Oriental Institute of Sarajevo
Salma Farooqui, Maulana Azad National Urdu University
(MANUU), Hyderabad
Said Amir Arjomand, SUNY Stony Brook

Presidential Address:
Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University
History in Epic: The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi

20:00-22:00: RECEPTION, HOTEL EUROPE

 TUESDAY, SEPT. 3RD  
Session I: 8:00-9:40

1. MANIFESTATIONS OF SAYYID IDENTITY IN THE PERSIANATE WORLD

Venue: Bos Hamam (8:00-9:40, Sep. 3)
Organized by: Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey, United States) and Kazuo Morimoto (University
of Tokyo, Japan)
Chair: Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford, UK)

Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Varying Criteria for a True Sayyid: Discrepancy between Genealogists and Jurisprudents
Rıza Yıldırım (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)
The Perception of the Twelve Imams and Prophetic Offspring in the Qizilbash-Bektashi Creed
Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey, United States)
Sayyid Genealogy, Narrative Tradition, and the Sacred Landscape in the Pamir

2. POLITICAL MAGNITUDE OF POETICS IN MODERN PERSIANATE WORLD

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (8:00-9:40, Sep. 3)
Organized by: Kevin Schwartz (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Chair: Kevin Schwartz (University of California, Berkeley, United States)

Kevin Schwartz (University of California, Berkeley, United States)

The “Jangnāmas” of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842) in Historical and Literary
Perspective: Events of Poetic Magnitude in the Modern Persianate World
Samad Alavi (University of Washington, United States)
Poetry after Velāyat-e Faqih: Mohammad Mokhtari and the Poetics of Historical Impossibility
Aria Fani (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Poetry of Afghan Resistance
 
3. ICONIC REPRESENTATIVES OF PERSIAN LITERACY IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Venue: Eur Conference 1 (8:00-9:40, Sep. 3)
Organized by: ASPS Regional Office for the Balkans
Chair: Snježana Buzov (Ohio State University, United States)

Ahmed Zildžić (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)

Mahmūd-paşa ‘Adnī and his Persian Divan
Namir Karahalilović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Ahmad-e Sudi-e Bosnavi: shāreh-e nāmdār-e āthar-e klāsik-e fārsi (in Persian)
Djenita Haverić (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Fawzī Mostārī and his Bulbulistan: A Treasure of Bosnian Literary Heritage (in Persian)
Sabaheta Gačanin (Oriental Institute, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Magic in Khatem’s Poetic Gard
4. HISTORICAL CURRENTS IN ‘LATE ANTIQUITY’
Venue: Eur Conference 2 (8:00-9:40, Sep. 3)
Chair: Richard Bulliet (Columbia University, United States)

Dan Shapira (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Judea and Armenia between Parthia and Rome
Richard Frye (Harvard University, United States)
The Absence of Silver in the Middle East after the Tenth Century
D. Gershon Lewental (University of Oklahoma, United States)
The Death of Rostam: Literary Representation of Iranian Identity in Early Islam
Sarah Savant (Agha Khan University, London, UK)
Naming Shu‘ubis

COFFEE BREAK: 9:40 - 10:10

Session II: 10:10-11:50

5. BEYOND THE VISIBLE: EXTENDED REALMS OF STYLE, ICONOGRAPHY,

TECHNIQUE, AND NARRATIVE IN THE MEDIEVAL PERSIANATE WORLD
Venue: Bos Hamam (10:10-11:50, Sep. 3)
Organized by: Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Chair: Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)

Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)

The Journey Within: The Composition of a Twelfth-Century Ceramic Bowl
Simon Rettig (Freer-Sackler Galleries - Smithsonian, Washington DC, United States)
A Putative Narrative Program? The Case of the Nizāmi’s Khusraw va Shirin of the Freer
Gallery of Art
Ladan Akbarnia (The British Museum, UK)
A ‘Cathayan’ Coffer at the Brooklyn Museum
Rachel Milstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Heroines in Persian Painting: Submission, Companionship or Rivalry

6. PRE-MODERN POETRY & CRITICISM

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (10:10-11:50, Sep. 3)
Chair: Anna Krasnowolska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Gabrielle van den Berg (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

The ‘Performability’ of Poems: On the Meter Rajaz in Persian Poetry
Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Duzdān-i rāh: The Treatment of Literary Theft in Nizāmi-ye Ganjavi’s Composition
Paul Losensky (Indiana University, United States)
Binding the Pages of the Heart: Metaphors of the Shirazeh in the Poetry of Sa`eb Tabrizi
Shahla Farghadani (Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Khan-e Arzu’s Critical Views on Persian Poetry
7. PERSIAN LITERACY & CULTURE IN BOSNIA
Venue: Eur Conference 1 (10:10-11:50, Sep. 3)
Organized by: ASPS Regional Office for the Balkans
Chair: Snježana Buzov (The Ohio State University, United States)

Namir Karahalilović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

An Overview of Persian MSS Collections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (in Persian)
Sejdalija Gušić (Historical Archive Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Persian Manuscripts of the Historical Archive of Sarajevo and the National and University Libraries of
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Munir Drkić (Persian Language and Literature, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Nosakh-e khati-ye Mathnavi-ye Maʿnavi dar ketabkhane-ye Bozni Herzogovin
Haris Dervišević (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
A Seventeenth-Century Persian Carpet in Sarajevo

8. TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE IMAGINATION

Venue: Eur Conference 2 (10:10-11:50, Sep. 3)
Organized by: Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Chair: Evrim Binbas (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Dreams and Delusions in Najm al-Dīn Kubrā’s (d. 1220 CE.) Sufi Treatises
Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University, United States)
A Puzzler, His City, its Poets, and Their Memories
Murat Cem Mengüç (Seton Hall University, United States)
Persianate Ottomans: Why Was Ahmedi’s İskendername so Popular at the End of the Fifteenth Century?
Eliza Tasbihi (Concordia University, Canada)
Theosophical Interpretation in Anqarawi’s Sharh-i Mathnawi: Reflections on Solomon’s Merciful
Wisdom

12:00-12:30 OPENING CEREMONY, GAZI HUSREV BEG PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT

COLLECTION
Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Library
Dr. Mustafa Jahić, Director, Gazi Husrev Beg Library
Introduction to the Persian Manuscripts Held at the GHB Library

12:30-13:00 OPENING OF THE SARAJEVAN CALLIGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Khaneqah
 LUNCH: 13:00-14:00

SESSION III 14:00-16:00

9. RELIGIONS OF IRANIAN ECUMENE I

Venue: Bos Hamam (14:00-16:00, Sep. 3)
Chair: Shaul Shaked (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Zohreh Zarshenas (Institute for Humanities & Cultural Studies, Tehran/Iran)

Two Sogdian Words (mʼn and pʼzn)
Pooriya Alimoradi (University of Toronto, Canada)
How Zoroastrian Was ‘pre-Islamic’ Sogdiana?
Mostafa Vaziri (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/Austria)
The Traces and Influences of Buddhism in Iran
Muqbilsho Alamshoev (Institute for Humanities and Sciences, Khorog/Tajikistan)
The Ancient Belief of Shugnis and the Four Elements of Nature
Rushongul Shofakirova (Independent Scholar, Tajikistan)
‘Poyiamal’: Pamir’s Traditional Dance of Grief

10. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN IRAN & CENTRAL ASIA: A LONG DURÉE PRISM
Venue: Bos Conference Hall (14:00-16:00, Sep. 3)
Chair: Hajrudin Somun (Ambassador, Sarajevo)

Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, United States)

‘Tajik’ as a Category of Exclusion: Bukharan Intellectuals, Turkism, and the Fragmentation of
Central Asia’s Persianate Heritage
Manuel Sarkisyanz (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Origins of Tajikistan
Mary Hegland (Santa Clara University, United States)
Kinship-based Factional Conflict (Taifeh-keshi) in Village Iran: Historical Influences

11. HISTORY, MIGRATION AND DIASPORA: SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (14:00-16:00, Sep. 3)
Chair: Salma Farooqui (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India)

Salma Farooqui (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India)

Creating Structures of Dominance: A Study of the Religio-Cultural System of the Qutb-Shahis
Mohammad Reza Niyati (Azad University, Garmsar, Iran)
Iranians in Bijapur (in Persian)
Navid Fozi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Emergent Pluralism in a Polarized Diaspora: Politics of Iranian Diasporic Identity in Malaysia
12. PERSIANATE ART, ICONOGRAPHY AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Venue: Eur Conference 2 (14:00-16:00, Sep. 3)

Chair: Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

Nato Gengiuri (Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgian State University, Georgia)
Iranian Art and Georgian Christian Architecture
Nino Kavtaria (National Center of Manuscripts, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Persian Artistic Stream in the Georgian Secular Miniature Painting of the 16th -17th Centuries
Dildor Toshmatova (Khujand State University, Khujand, Tajikistan)
Reflections of Persian Mythology in Tajik Art
Timur Karimov (Khujand State University, Khujand, Tajikistan)
Khujand Silk “atlas” and the Influence of the Great Silk Route

COFFEE BREAK: 16:00–16:30

SESSION IV 16:30-18:10

13. THE SPECTRE OF DUALISM: HERESIES, ORTHODOXIES AND THE IRANIAN

OTHER FROM “MAZDAK” TO ABU ʿISA AL-WARRAQ
Venue: Bos Hamam (16:30-17:50, Sep. 3)
Organized by: David Bennett (King's College, London)
Chair: David Bennett (King's College, London)

István Kristó-Nagy (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK)
Kill the Damned Zindiq!
David Bennett (King’s College, London, UK)
Al-Thanawiyyah as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām
Khodadad Rezakhani (London School of Economics, UK)
Mazdakism, Manichaeism, and Zoroastrianism: In Search of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Sasanian
Iran

14. PERSIAN STUDIES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (16:30-18:10, Sep. 3)
Organized by: ASPS Regional Office for the Balkans
Chairperson: Sabaheta Gačanin (Oriental Institute, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Sabaheta Gačanin (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)

An Overview of the Persian Studies at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo from 1950 until today
Elvir Musić (Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey)
The Study of the Persian language in Bosnia- Herzegovina until 1950 (in Persian)
Dzenita Karić (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)
Persian Classical Works in Bosnian Periodicals until 1950
 Djenita Haverić (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Study of the Persian Language and Literature at the University of Sarajevo: Faculty of
Philosophy from 1950 until Today

15. MODERN LITERATURE

Venue: Eur conference 1 (16:30-18:10, Sep. 3)
Chair: Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of Maryland, United States)

Anna Krasnowolska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

A Fictitious Manuscript as Narrative Device in Modern Persian Prose
Maryam Musharraf (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Who Has Composed this Divan? A Reconsideration of the Originality of Parvin Etesami’s Poems

16:30-18:00: BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

MEETING (CLOSED SESSION)
Venue: Bosniac Institute (16:30-18:00, Sep. 3)

18:00-20:00: TRIBUTE TO IRANIAN WRITER-LAUREATE MAHMOUD

DOWLATABADI
Venue:  Bosniac  Cultural  Center
Master  of  Ceremonies:  Ahmad  Karimi-­‐Hakkak  
Artistic  Director  and  Pianist:  Ariana  Barkeshli  
Convener:  Parvaneh  Pourshariati  

20:00-22:00: RECEPTION
Venue: Hotel Europe
 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4TH
Session I: 8:00-9:40

16. MODERN HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN

Venue: Bos Rizvic Hall (8:00-9:40, Sep. 4)
Chair: Manuel Sarkisyanz (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Amin Tarzi (Marine Corps University, United States)

The Persian Heritage of Afghan Historiography
Noah Arjomand (Columbia University, United States)
The Failure of Double Government in Britain’s First Experiment in Afghan State-Building

17. SAFAVIDS: HISTORY AND DIPLOMACY I

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (8:00-9:40, Sep. 4)
Chair: Grigol Beradze (G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University, Georgia)

Jose Cutillas Ferrer (University of Alicante, Spain)

Did Safavid Persia Have a Policy towards the Mediterranean Sea in the 17th Century?
Stanisław Adam Jaśkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Some Remarks on Sources for Safavid-Polish Relations
Myriam Sabbaghi (University of Chicago, United States)
Reassessing the Reasons for Shaykh Bahai's Resignation
Daryoush Rahmanian Kooshkaki (Tehran University, Iran)
Qutb al-Din Neyrizi and the Decline of the Safavids

18. IRANIAN NATIONAL TRADITIONS

Venue: Bos Hamam (8:00-9:40, Sep. 4)
Chair: Parvaneh Pourshariati (Ohio State University, United States)

Behrooz Chaman Ara (Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany)

A Brief Survey of the Structure of the Triad-Divinities in the Kurdish Shahnameh
Saghi Gazerani (Journal of Persianate Studies, Illinois, United States)
Why Was the Story of Arash-e Kamangir Excluded from the Shahnameh?
Pavel Basharin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Sacred (Demonic) Wars in the Iranian Tradition

19. FROM DAGESTAN TO TAJIKISTAN & THE SUB-CONTINENT: PERSIANATE

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Venue: Eur Conference 1 (8:00-9:40, Sep. 4)
Chair: John Perry (University of Chicago, United States)

Brian Spooner (University of Pennsylvania, United States)

Persianate Language and Culture
Anahita Shahrokhi (University of Tehran, Iran)
Persianate Historical Inscriptions in Dagestan—South Russia
 Ali Mohammad Tarafdari (New Historical Studies Journal, Tehran, Iran)
A Historical Survey on the process of Formation Persian Pure Writing in India Sub-continent and
Iran (in Persian)

COFFEE BREAK: 9:40-10:10

Session II: 10:10-11:50

20. IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS I

Venue: Bos Hamam (10:10-11:50, Sep. 4)
Chair: Marina Alexidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)

Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan State University, Armenia)

On Caucasian Elements in the Persian Lexicon
Khodadad Rezakhani (London School of Economics, UK)
Armenian, Georgian, or Persian?: Identity of Caucasian Albanians in Late Antiquity
Viktoria Arakelova (Yerevan State University, Armenia)
On Some Peculiarities of the South Caspian Contact Zone
Grigol Beradze (G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University, Georgia)
Thus Spoke Hafez: On Some Royal Seals with Persian Poetical Inscriptions

21. BEYOND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE: AFFECT AND THE MAGICAL IN THE

COLLECTIVE MEMORY
Venue: Bos Conference Hall (10:10-11:50, Sep. 4)
Organized by: Christine Allison (University of Exeter, UK)
Chair: Christine Allison (University of Exeter, UK)

Christine Allison (University of Exeter, UK)

Exiled to the Present: Nostalgia, Memory and the Kurdish Ballad
Ioannis Kanakis (University of Exeter, UK)
Yaresan: Singing Contradiction, Remembering History
Kawa Morad (University of Exeter, Iraq)
History as what Hurts and Pleases: Stranbejs' Conceptions of Experiences Past in Badinan, Iraqi
Kurdistan
Luqman Turgut (Mustafa Barzani Arbeitsstelle für kurdische Studien, University of Erfurt,
Germany)
He Came Back to Life: The Memory of the Paranormal

22. ETHOS & PRACTICE OF POETRY IN MEVLEVI TRADITION

Venue: Bos Rizvic Hall (10:10-11:50, Sep. 4)
Organized by: Rumi Institute
Chair: Jawid Mojaddedi (Rutgers University, United States)

Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago, United States)

Solṭân Valad (d. 1312) and the Poetical Order: Framing the Ethos and Praxis of Poetry in the Mevlevi
Tradition
 Slobodan Ilić (Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus)
Rumi’s Remote Vestiges: Mevlevi Culture and Persianate Literacy in the 16th-Century Ottoman Balkans
Jamal Elias (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Mughlali Ibrahim Shahidi, Divane Mehmed, and the Evolution of Mawlana Rumi and the Mevlevis
Roderick Grierson (Rumi Institute, Near East University, Cyprus)
‘A Companion of Ali’: Fahreddin Dede and the Last Poets of the Mevlevi

23. THEMES IN PERSIAN MYTH AND HISTORY

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (10:10-11:50, Sep. 4)
Organized by: Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Chair: Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow, UK)

Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow, UK)

Myth and History in the Sufi and Javanmardi Traditions
Charles Melville (University of Cambridge, UK)
Illustrating the History of Timur
Firuza Abdullaeva (University of Cambridge, UK)
Shahnama in Tajikistan and Soviet Mythology
Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews and BIPS, UK)
Myth and History in Modern Iranian Nationalism

LUNCH BREAK: 11:50-14:00

12:00-13:00: DOCUMENTARY ON THE GAZI HUSREV BEG LIBRARY DURING

THE 1992-95 WAR: Film se zove: The Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story, BBC
Venue: Gazi Husrev Beg Library

 
SESSION III 14:00-16:00

24. THE POLITICS OF LITERARY PRODUCTION

Venue: Bos Hamam (14:00-16:00, Sep. 4)
Chair: Saghi Gazerani (Journal of Persianate Studies)

Olga Davidson (Boston University, United States)

On the Relationship of the Shāhnāma-ye Chengīzī to the history of the Mongols
Stefan Kamola (Princeton University, United States)
Hamd Allah Mustaufi and the Making of Rashid al-Din
Daniel Sheffield (Princeton University, United States)
Colonizing the Persianate: Epic and Empire in the Georgenama of Mulla Firuz

25. PERSO-OTTOMAN LITERATURE

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (14:00-16:00, Sep. 4)
Chair: Selim Kuru (University of Washington, Seattle, United States)

Farnaz Naghizadeh (Islamic Azad University, Islamabad-e Gharb, Iran)

A Shahnameh for the Sultan
Nedim Zahirović (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
 Persianism in the Literary Works of the Ottoman Author Mehmed Nergisi (d. 1635)
Ali Temizel (Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey)
Āsār-e fārsi-ye Ahmadi Garmiyāni dar sadeh-ye hashtom-e hejri dar āsiay-e saghir (in Persian)
Benedek Péri (University of Budapest, Hungary)
Persian Ghazals by Yavuz Sultan Selim: A First Approach
Mohammad Hakimazar (Islamic Azad University, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran)
Sudi Bosnawi’s Methodology of Commenting on Literary Persian Masterpieces

26. RELIGIONS OF IRANIAN ECUMENE II

Venue: Bos Rizvic Hall (14:00-16:00, Sep. 4)
Chair: Zohreh Zershenas (Institute for Humanities, Tehran, Iran)

Milad Jahangirfar (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran)
Elamite Triad: Formation of the Elamite Triad and its Influence on later Iranian Beliefs
Mateusz Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
Zoroastrian Version of “les rites de passage” Presented in Middle Persian Madigan-i Yošt-Fryan
Askar Bahrami (The Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation, Tehran, Iran)
Some Unknown Zoroastrian Books Mentioned in a Shi‘ite Work
Jason Silverman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Persian Fire? Nehemiah and Persian Connections with the Restored Jerusalem Cult

27. ETHICS AND IDEALS OF RULERSHIP

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (14:00-16:00, Sep 4)
Chair: Said Amir Arjomand (SUNY Stony Brook, United States)

Mohsen Zakeri (Göttingen, Germany)

How the Caliph Became the King: The Making of an Ideal Ruler in Early Persian-Arabic Mirrors
for Princes
Irina Shingiray (Boston University, United States)
Double Kingship Revisited: The Iranian Roots of Political and Spiritual Leadership in the Khazar
and Buyid Empires (10th century AD)
Velida Mataradžija (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Traditions of Ancient Iran in the Political Treatise, Usul al-Hikam fi Nizam al-Alam, by the
Bosnian Hasan Kafal-Aqhisari

COFFEE BREAK: 16:00-16:30

 
 
SESSION IV 16:30-18:10

28. ANCIENT CONTACTS BETWEEN IRAN AND THE BALKANS

Venue: Bos Hamam (16:30-17:50, Sep 4)
Chair: Asim Zubčević (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Amra Šačić (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Mithraism on The Territory of Modern Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nedim Rabić (Institute for History, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Manichaeism and the Bosnian Church
 Dženan Dautović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Connection between Persia and the Adriatic in the Middle Ages: The Case of Shatranj

29. SOURCES: FROM MANUSCRIPTS TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Venue: Bos Conference (16:30-17:50, Sep 4)
Chair: Enes Kujundžić (University of Zenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Umed Mamadsherzodshoev (Institute for Humanities and Sciences, Dushanbe,Tajikistan)

Unpublished Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Historical Documents for the Study of Badakhshan
Kamran Arjomand (University Library, Halle, Germany)
Workshop on Digitalization Project
Negin Nabavi (Montclair State University, United States)
Reading and Reading Rooms in Early Twentieth-Century Iran

30. SCIENCE & THE ESOTERIC

Venue: Bos Rizvic Hall (16:30-18:10, Sep 4)
Chair: Rešid Hafizović (Faculty for Islamic Studies, Sarajevo)

Kaveh Niazi (Independent Scholar, United States)

Qutb al-Din Shirāzi and his Use of Usul in Ikhtiyārāt-i Muzaffari
Emin Lelić (University of Chicago, United States)
Ilm-e Firaset between the Persianate: A Window into the Soul of a Weltanschauung
Rešid Hafizović (Faculty for Islamic Studies, Sarajevo)
    The Presence of Iranic Philosophical and 'Irfani Thought in the Balkans

31. MESSIANISM AND OCCULTISM I

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (16:30-18:10, Sep 4)
Organized by: Ferenc Csirkes (University of Chicago, United States)
Chair: Ferenc Csirkes (University of Chicago, United States)

Ilker Evrim Binbas (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Messianism as a Constitutional Problem: The Case of the Timurids
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (Princeton University, United States)
Occultism and the Practice of Millenarian Politics in the 15th Century Persianate World
Miklós Sárközy (Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK)
Responses to Rivalry and Decline: The Context of the Qiyāma of 1164

18:10-20:00: JOURNAL OF PERSIANATE STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD MEETING

(CLOSED SESSION)
Venue: Bos Institute (18:10–20:00, Sep 4)

THURSDAY, SEPT. 5TH  

Session I: 8:00-9:40

32. LOCAL HISTORIES AND HISTORIOGRAPHIES

Venue: Bos Hamam (8:00-9:40, Sep 5)
Chair: James Pickett (Princeton University, United States)
 James Pickett (Princeton University, United States)
Patricians of Bukhara: Family Dynasties in the Abode of Knowledge, 1747-1917
Hossein Abadian (IKIU, Tehran)
The Parsis of India and Innovation in Iranian Historiography
Assef Ashraf (Yale University, United States)
“Quenching the Fire of Ferment”: Political Authority and Urban Upheaval in Early Nineteenth
Century Bushire

33. THE COMMENTARIES ON CLASSICAL PERSIAN WORKS IN OTTOMAN

TURKISH AND PERSIAN – IN PERSIAN
Venue: Bos Conference Hall (8:00-9:40, Sep 5)
Organized by: ASPS Regional Office for the Balkans
Chair: Elvir Musić

Hacer Memišević (Burch University, Sarajevo)

An Overview of the Commentaries on Persian Classical Works in the Ottoman Domain: The
Emergence and Development of a Tradition
Elvir Musić (Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey)
The Genres/Types of Commentaries on Persian Classical Works with a few Examples
Muamer Memišević (Independent Scholar, Sarajevo)
Sham‘ī Prizrenli as a Distinguished Commentator of Persian Classical Works

34. SAFAVIDS: CULTURAL SPHERES II

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (8:00-9:40, Sep 5)
Chair: Paul Losensky (Indiana University, United States)

Rıza Yıldırım (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey)

In the Name of the Prince of Martyrs: The Safavid Use of Karbala Memory in the Formation of
the Qizilbash
Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK)
Between Aleppo and Delhi: the Armenians of Isfahan and Domestic Architecture and Decoration
Theodore Beers (University of Chicago, United States)
Vahshi Bafqi: A Rare Provincial Poet in the Tahmasp Era
Raya Shani (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
“Were the Sea all Ink, It Would be Impossible to State the Virtues of ‘Ali”

35. IRAN AND INDIAN OCEAN COUNTRIES IN THE COLD WAR

Venue: Eur Conference 2 (8:00-9:40, Sep 5)
Chair: Noah Arjomand (Columbia University, United States)

Claudia Castiglioni (University of Milan, Italy)

“It Is Good to Have Alliances, but it is Best to Depend on Yourself.” The Impact of the 1965 Indo-
Pakistan War on Iranian Foreign Policy
Clément Therme (CADIS-CETOBAC [EHESS], France)
Tehran's Attitude towards India since the 1970s: Changes and Continuities between the Imperial Regime
and the Islamic Republic
Houchang E. Chehabi (Boston University, United States)
Iran and South Africa in the Cold War
 COFFEE BREAK: 9:40-10:10

Session II: 10:10-11:50

36. TRACING PERSIAN AND THE PERSIANATE IN THE BALKANS

Venue: Bos Hamam (10:10-11:50, Sep 5)
Chair: Selma Zečević (York University, Toronto, Canada)

Yuri Stoyanov (Bulgaria)

Balkano-Iranica—the Contours of a New Discipline
Amra Mulović (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Bosnian Reception of Medieval Works on Classical Arabic Grammar Written by Iranian Authors
Dragana Amedoski and Jovana Šaljić (Institute of History, Serbia)
Some Observations on the Influence of Persian on Serbian with Ottoman Turkish as the Mediator
Amela Šehovič and Đenita Haverić (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Words of Persian Origin in the Contemporary Bosnian Language

37. BALKH: TRANSFORMATION OF A SACRED CITY IN THE EARLY ISLAMIC

ERA
Venue: Bos Conference Hall (10:10-11:50, Sep 5)

Chair: Arezou Azad (University of Oxford, UK)

Edmund Herzig (University of Oxford, UK)

Between Khorasan and Transoxiana: Locating Balkh in Iranian and Central Asian Urban History
Arezou Azad (University of Oxford, UK)
Local Histories and How a City is Made Holy?
Tasha Vorderstrasse (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, United States)
Chinese Sources for the Landscape of Balkh
Robert Hoyland (ISAW/Oxford, UK)
The Battle for Balkh in the Late Umayyad Period

38. REMAPPING THE HISTORY OF PERSIAN ART HISTORY

Venue: Eur Conference 1 (10:10-11:50, Sep 5)
Organized by: Iván Szántó (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Eötvös Loránd University,
Hungary)
Chair: Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

Iván Szántó (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Inventors and Collectors of Persian Art for the Balkans
Barbara Karl (MAK-Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria)
Iranian Art in Nineteenth-century Vienna – With a Focus on the Collections of the MAK-Museum
für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
 Joachim Gierlichs (Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Germany)
Ernst Cohn-Wiener in Central Asia
Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Arthur Upham Pope, Carpets and a Master-Narrative of Persian Art

39. MIRZA ABD AL-QADER BIDEL

Venue: Eur Conference 2 (10:10-11:50, Sep 5)
Organized by: Prashant Keshvamurthy (McGill University, Canada)
Chair: Jane Mikkelson (University of Chicago, United States)

Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University, Canada)

Bidel’s Portrait
Hajnalka Kovacs (University of Chicago, United States)
“The Foundation of the Universe Rests on Sound”: The Problem of Speech and Silence in Bidel’s Muḥiṭ-i
A‘ẓam
Jane Mikkelson (University of Chicago, United States)
Meditations on the Moment: Or, Bidel and Imagination’s Pyrrhic Leap
Samuel Hodgkin (University of Chicago, United States)
Progressive Content, Decadent Form: Reading Bīdel in Soviet Central Asia

LUNCH BREAK: 11:50-14:00

SESSION III 14:00-16:00

40. MYSTICISM AND POPULAR SHI‘ISM IN THE PERSIANATE WORLD

Venue: Bos Hamam (14:00-16:00, Sep 5)
Chair: Franklin Lewis (University of Chicago, United States)

Jawid Mojaddedi (Rutgers University, United States)

How to Read Rumi? Audience and Epistemology in Rumi’s Didactic Writings
Saeid Abedpour (Ibn Sina Institute, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
The Role of Iranians in Bosnian Mysticism (in Persian)
Firouzeh Peyvand (University of Cambridge, UK)
From the Deccan to Mahan: Patronage of Ni‘matullahi Sufi Order by the Bahmanis of the Deccan?
Sara Kuehn, (Independent Scholar, Austria)
Twelver Shi‘i Components in Contemporary Bektashi Visual Piety in the Western Balkans?
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (University of Tehran, Iran)
Some Ta‘ziye Texts about Jesus Christ from the Qajar Era

41. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CURRENTS OF MODERN IRANIAN HISTORY

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (14:00-16:00, Sep 5)
Chair: Houchang Chehabi (Boston University, United States)

Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford, UK)

Deserters, Converts, Cossacks and Revolutionaries: Russians in Iranian Ministry Service 1800-
1920
Saghar Sadeghian (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France)
Non-Muslim Discourse in the First and Second Iranian Constitutional Parliaments (1906-1911)
 Denis Hermann (CNRS, Paris, France)
Some Notes on the Role Played by the Iranian Ulama in the ‘Atabat during the Constitutional
Movement
Dariush Borbor (Research Institute and Library of Iranian Studies, Tehran, Iran)
The Architectural Era of Hitler, Mussolini and Reza Shah: A Comparative Historiography
Eric Lob (Princeton University, United States)
The Iranian Reconstruction Jihad: From Inception to Institutionalization (1979-2001)

42. LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY CURRENTS IN “LATE ANTIQUITY”

Venue: Eur Conference 1(14:00-16:00, Sep 5)
Chair: Ghazzal Dabiri (Columbia University, United States)

Helen Giunashvili (G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Tbilisi, Georgia)

Parthia and the Iberian Kingdom: Questions of Cultural-Linguistic Inter-Relations
John Perry (University of Chicago, United States)
Continuity and Evolution in the Lexicographical Tradition between Middle and New Persian
Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Persian Language as the Hallmark of Iranian Nationalism
Shaul Shaked (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
The Persian Dialect of Khorasan in the Eleventh Century
Konstantin Vasiltsov (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russia)
Persian Ismaili Literary Tradition in Badakhshan

43. WOMEN AND GENDER

Venue: Eur Conference 2 (14:00-16:00, Sep 5)
Chair: Salma Farooqui (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India)

Gholam Vatandoust (American University of Kuwait, Kuwait)

The Discourse of Equal Rights, Women and Constitutionalism in the Newspaper Akhtar
Irene Schneider (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany)
Equality/tasāvī or Similarity/tashāboh? Gender Roles and Current Gender Discourses in the
Islamic Republic of Iran

COFFEE BREAK: 16:00-16:30

SESSION IV 16:30-18:10
 
44. IRAN AND ITS EUROPEAN AND OTTOMAN "OTHERS": FROM
ENGAGEMENT TO ISOLATIONISM
Venue: Bos Hamam (16:30-18:10, Sep 5)
Organized by: Fariba Zarinebaf (University of California- Riverside, United States)
Chair: Parisa Vaziri (University of California, Irvine, United States)

Fariba Zarinebaf (University of California- Riverside, United States)

Safavid Envoy in Europe: Don Juan of Persia
Başak Kilerci (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Mozaffar al-Din Shah’s Istanbul Visit (1900): Reading Ottoman-Qajar Relations through Photography
 Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, United States)
“Na Sharqi, na gharbi: Irāni” (Neither East nor West: Iranian): The Roots of the Iranian Quest for Self-
Sufficiency
George Sanikidze (Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University, Georgia)
Some Remarks about Iranian and Turkish Crises

45. IRAN AND THE CAUCASUS II

Venue: Bos Conference Hall (16:30-17:50, Sep 5)
Chair: Irina Koshoridze (Georgian National Museum, Georgia)

Nana Kharebava (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Self-perception and Identity of the Georgian Walis in the Safavid Period
Irina Koshoridze (Georgian National Museum, Georgia)
Two Persian Textiles from Georgian Royal Memorial Collections
Marina Alexidze (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)
Georgia through the Eyes of Iranian Travelers of the Qajar Period

46. MESSIANISM AND OCCULTISM II

Venue: Eur Conference 1(16:30-17:50, Sep 5)

Organized by: Ferenc Csirkes (University of Chicago, United States)

Chair: Dan Shapira (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Ferenc Csirkes (University of Chicago, United States)

Messianic Oeuvres in Interaction: Shah Ismail, Nesimi and Plagiarism in 16th-17th century Turkish
Poetry
Mohammad Masad (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
Ancient Sages and Scripts in Medieval Islamic Apocalyptic Literature

47. THE STATE OF THE STUDY OF ANCIENT AND MIDDLE PERSIAN

LANGUAGES IN IRAN
Venue: Eur Conference 2 (16:30-17:50, Sep 5)
Organized by: Ali Amini (Hafez University, Shiraz, Iran)
Chair: Zohreh Zarshenash (Institute for Humanities & Cultural Studies, Tehran/Iran)

Ali Amini (Hafez University, Shiraz, Iran)

The Challenges of the Academic Field of Ancient Iranian Language and Cultures in Iran
Abbas Azarandaz (Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran)
The Problems of Teaching Ancient Iranian Languages in Iran

20:30-22:00 CLASSICAL PERSIAN & BOSNIAC FOLK MUSIC CONCERT:

SEPIDEH RAISSADAT ENSEMBLE
AMIRA MEDUNJANIN & BOŠKO JOVIĆ
Venue: St. Anthony Church, Bistrik
 FRIDAY, SEPT. 6TH  
 
 
8:00 AM - DAY-LONG EXCURSION TO MOSTAR
Venue: We will assemble in the lobby of Hotel Europe at 8:00 AM