Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Room 216, Toronto, ON, M5S 1C1
416-978-5245
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Persian Studies
Areas of Interest
- History of late antique and medieval Iran
- Classical Persian literature
- Perso-Islamic mysticism
- Arabic and Persian mirrors for princes
- Persian manuscript studies
Education
PhD, Harvard University
Publications
- A Timurid-era Manuscript of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (The secret of secrets) from the Atelier of Bāysunghur Mīrzā (Brill, Leiden (in press) : 2024)
- Kashifi's Asrar-i qasimi: A Late Timurid Manual of the Occult Sciences and Its Safavid Afterlife (Brill, Leiden : 2021)
- A Man of Letters: Hoseyn Va‘ez Kashefi and His Persian Project (I. B. Tauris, London : 2020)
- The Works of Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī as a Source for the Study of Sufism in Late 15th– and Early 16th-Century Central Asia. (Brill, Leiden : 2018)
- The Islamic Ascension Narrative in the Context of Conversion in Medieval Iran: An Apocalypse at the Intersection of Orality and Textuality. (Brill, Leiden : 2015)
- An Old Tale with a New Twist: The Elephant and the Blind Men in Rūmī’s Masnavī and Its Precursors. (Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden : 2014)
- Between Persian Legend and Samanid Orthodoxy: Accounts about Gayumarth in Bal‘ami’s Tarikhnama. (I. B. Tauris, London : 2013)
- The Binding Pledge (möchälgä): A Chinggisid Practice and Its Survival in Safavid Iran. (Routledge, London : 2011)
- Templificatio hominis: Ka‘ba, Cosmos, and Man in the Islamic Mystical Tradition. (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen : 2010)
- Tamerlane and His Descendants: From Paladins to Patrons. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2010)
- Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. (Brill, Leiden : 2007)
- Le monde est un jardin: Aspects de l’histoire culturelle de l’Iran médiéval. (Association pour l’Avancement des Études Iraniennes, Paris : 2002)