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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.Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today’s Iran, including the area of greater Khorasan. The Persian language gained unprecedented currency over Arabic and new buildings and manuscripts were produced for princely patrons with aspirations to don the Iranian crown of kingship.
This new volume in “The Idea of Iran” series follows the complexities surrounding the cultural reinvention of Iran after the Mongol invasions, but the book is unique capturing not only the effects of Mongol rule but also the period following the collapse of Mongol-based Ilkhanid rule. By the mid-1330s the Ilkhanate in Iran was succeeded by alternative models of authority and local Iranian dynasties. This led to the proliferation of diverse and competing cultural, religious and political practices but so far scholarship has neglected to produce an analysis of this multifaceted history in any depth. Iran After the Mongols offers new and cutting-edge perspectives on what happened. Analysing the fourteenth century in its own right, Sussan Babaie and her fellow contributors capture the cultural complexity of an era that produced some of the most luminous masterpieces in Persian literature and the most significant new building work in Tabriz, Yazd, Herat and Shiraz. Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this is a wide-ranging treatment of an under-researched period and the volume will be essential reading for scholars of Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern History.
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
Produced in association with the Soudavar Memorial Foundation.
Charting over 1,000 years of history, the Idea of Iran series offers a significant new appraisal of one of the most fascinating of the great civilizations of the world. Comprising substantial volumes by leading experts in the field of Iranian Studies, the series explores the empires and cross-cultural traditions that have shaped the culture of Iran and the Persianate World.
http://soudavar.org/idea-of-iran/