Seminars - Hilary Term 2009

Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals: Strategies of Central Power

21 January Professor Charles Melville
(University of Cambridge)
History and its illustration in the early Safavid period
28 January

Dr Colin Imber
(University of Manchester)

Who owned the Land? Land tenure in the Ottoman empire
4 February

Professor Polly O'Hanlon
(University of Oxford)

"Regional centralisations" in the Mughal empire: Some perspectives on a comparative history
11 February

Dr Katherine Brown
(King's College London)

Sense and Sensibility: The domain of pleasure and the place of music in Mughal society
18 February Dr Andrew Newman
(University of Edinburgh)
Shahs and Subalterns: The response of the Safavid court to "voices from below"
25 February Professor Edmund Herzig
(University of Oxford)
Messing with the Market: Safavid trade policy under Abbas I and his Successors
4 March

Susan Stronge
(Victoria and Albert Museum)

Portraits of Power at the Mughal court
11 March Dr Evrim Bin Bas
(University of Chicago)
The Constitutional Crisis of the 15th century and the Timurid antecedents of the Early Modern Islamic discourse on the absolute monarch