NES 2722 - [Of Saints, Poets, and Revolutionaries: Medieval and Modern Iran and Central Asia]

(crosslisted) ASIAN 2294, MEDVL 2722, RELST 2722
(GHB) (HA-AS, HST-AS, SCD-AS) (CU-ITL)

Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 3 credits. Student option grading.

S. Golestaneh.

From the poet-kings of medieval Persia to the trading networks of the famed “Silk Road” to the wandering mystics of Herat to the constitutional revolution of Iran to the colonial and post-colonial occupations of contemporary Afghanistan, this course offers a broad cultural and political history of Iranian and Turkic Central Asia. In addition, we will explore the highly complex intellectual, artistic, and architectural trends and “cross-cultural” exchanges that formed the backbone of many disparate Iranian-Turkic cultures.