Salam Everyone,
Please join us this Thursday, May 26, at 5:00 pm CST for the FINAL Persian Circle of the quarter and academic year! This week, we are joined by Ali Gibran Siddiqui, a postdoctoral research associate in Central Asian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. As a historian of Islamic Central Asia, he is interested in the economic, political, and social lives of Naqshbandi Sufis in the Timurid and Mughal Empires. His PhD dissertation at The Ohio State University reappraised the role of the Naqshbandi Sufi ṭarīqa across fifteenth-, sixteenth-, and seventeen-century Central Asia and India as an example of a trust network that used ritualized notions of trust and exclusivity to monitor the trans-regional movement of goods and peoples. His current projects include articles on the Juybari Naqshbandi presence in Mughal India and the role of miraculous dreams and spiritual monopolies in jade production in sixteenth-century Kashghar.
Gibran has served as Assistant Professor and the Program Director for the Bachelor’s Program in Social Sciences and Liberal Arts at the Institute of Business Administration. He has also held a visiting position at CERI, where he taught undergraduate courses in historical methods and South Asian history. He is also collaborating with art historians at The Louvre to develop a typography of Mughal chilanum daggers. In addition, Gibran has been responsible for rescuing and rehousing the Anjuman Taraqqi-ye Urdu Pakistan’s sizable Arabic, Persian and Urdu language manuscript collection. Supported by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and the Roshan Institute of Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, he is currently overseeing a project to digitize, index, and catalog those rare manuscripts.
The title of his talk is “Sufis, Walrus Ivory, and Appeals to Timurid Nostalgia: the Career of Abdullah Khan Firuz Jang.”
You can join us on zoom at the following URL: https://tinyurl.com/persiancircle. The full zoom link is below.
We look forward to seeing you!
سلام بر همگی
لطفا این پنجشنبه در "زوم" برای آخرین برنامه سال تحصیلی با ما همراه باشید! سخنران این هفته استاد علی جبران صدیقی است. آقای صدیقی تاریخدان آسیای مرکزی و دانشیار پژوهشی در دپارتمان مطالعات خاور میانه است. تمرکز مطالعات او، و پایاننامه دکترای او، بر زندگی اقتصادی، سیاسی و اجتماعی نقشبندیان در امپراطوری های تیموری و گورکانیان است. او استادیار و مدیر برنامه لیسانس در علوم اجتماعی و انسانی در موسسه مدیریت بازرگانی بوده، و ما موزه لوور بر تایپوگرافی خنجرهای شیلانوم گورکانی کار کرده. علاوه بر این، او با موزه و کتابخانه هیل در پروژه فهرست بندی و نگهداری دیجیتال از نسخه های خطی انجمن ترقی اردو کار می کند.
عنوان سخنرانی " صوفیان، دندانهای ماهی، و یادگارهای تیموری: کارنامه عبدالله خان فیروز جنگ " میباشد
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