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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)
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Who owned the Land? Land tenure
in the Ottoman empire |
| 4 February |
Professor Polly O'Hanlon
(University of Oxford)
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"Regional centralisations"
in the Mughal empire: Some perspectives on a comparative history
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| 11 February |
Dr Katherine Brown
(King's College London)
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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)
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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 |
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