Dr James White: Community Formation and the Edges of Empire: Panegyric Poetry in Sanʿaʾ and Isfahan, 1670-1690.

Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United Kingdom

Dr James White is Departmental Lecturer of Persian Studies at Oxford University. His research focuses on multilingualism and the social uses of poetry in the Middle East and South Asia during the late medieval and early modern periods.   Talk Abstract: During the latter half of the seventeenth century, the question of who wielded –…