Orthodoxy and Dissent: Exploring Persian Intellectual Legacies
Dates
14 March 2025
Times
9am - 5pm
Location
LSK rooms A and B, Wadham College
Summary
A one-day seminar co-convened by Professor Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Utrecht University), Professor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (Wadham College), and Professor Edmund Herzig (Wadham College).
This seminar will showcase current research by Persian/Iranian Studies professors and postdoctoral researchers at Utrecht University.
Places at the seminar are limited and priority will be given to Wadham undergraduates and graduates studying Persian as part of their degree. To reserve a place, please email Professor Brookshaw.
Opening and Welcome: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Edmund Herzig
Session One (chair, D P Brookshaw):
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
“Curing Doubt and Unbelief: Abu Hamid Muhammad Ghazali’s Treatises on Freethinkers.”
Zhinia Noorian
“Persian ghazal: Jahan-Malik Khatun’s Transgressive Path to Female Agency.”
Arash Ghajarjazi
“Memories of Unbelief: Remediating Khayyam and Secularism in 20th Century Iran.”
Session Two (chair, E Herzig):
Leila Rahimi Bahmany
“Conferring Authority through Hagiography: The Case of Kaygusuz Abdal and the Appropriation of Narrative Strategies.”
Amin Ghodratzadeh
“The Ilahi-nama and the Madman.”
Alexandra Nieweg
“Literary Qalandars: Metaphor and Reality in the Poetry of Hakim Sana’i (d. 1131).”
Session Three (chair, D P Brookshaw):
Maarten Holtzapffel
“Of Love and Tolerance: Rumi's Story of Moses and the Shepherd.”
Fatemeh Naghshvarian
“Antinomian Tropes in Feyzi’s Nal-u Daman.”
