TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Iran After the Mongols” has been released in the Iranian book market.

Translated by Seyyed Abolfazl Razavi, the book has been brought out by Amir Kabir Publications in 456 pages, ISNA reported.
 
The 8th volume in the series “The Idea of Iran,” the original book is edited by Sussan Babaie and published in 2019 by I.B. Tauris, an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, recognized as a world leader in Middle East Studies and a major presence in Politics & International Relations publishing.

The series includes 11 volumes, 10 of which have already been released in Persian, and the last one will be published soon.

Following the devastating Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, the domination of the Abbasids declined, leading to successor polities, chiefly among them the Ilkhanate in Greater Iran, Iraq, and the Caucasus.

Iranian cultural identities were reinstated within the lands that make up today's Iran, including the area of greater Khorasan. The Persian language gained unprecedented currency over Arabic, and new buildings and manuscripts were produced for princely patrons with aspirations to don the Iranian crown of kingship.

This new volume in “The Idea of Iran” series follows the complexities surrounding the cultural reinvention of Iran after the Mongol invasions, but the book is unique, capturing not only the effects of Mongol rule but also the period following the collapse of Mongol-based Ilkhanid rule. 

By the mid-1330s, the Ilkhanate in Iran was succeeded by alternative models of authority and local Iranian dynasties. This led to the proliferation of diverse and competing cultural, religious, and political practices, but so far, scholarship has neglected to produce an analysis of this multifaceted history in any depth. 

“Iran After the Mongols” offers new and cutting-edge perspectives on what happened. Analyzing the 14th century in its own right, Sussan Babaie and her fellow contributors capture the cultural complexity of an era that produced some of the most luminous masterpieces in Persian literature and the most significant new building work in Tabriz, Yazd, Herat, and Shiraz. 

Featuring contributions by leading scholars, this is a wide-ranging treatment of an under-researched period, and the volume will be essential reading for scholars of Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern History.

Sussan Babaie, 71, is an Iranian-born art historian and curator. She is best known for her work on Persian art and Islamic art of the early modern period.

Born in Abadan, Iran, Babaieshe studied graphic design at the University of Tehran. She continued her education in the U.S. and received her PhD from New York University. A historian of art and architecture focusing on Iran and Islamic West Asia, she has published widely and has taught in the U.S., Germany, and is teaching since 2013 at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

She has written extensively on the art and architecture of the Safavid dynasty. Her research takes a multidisciplinary approach and explores topics such as urbanism, empire studies, transcultural visuality, and notions of exoticism. 

In her work as a curator, Babaie has worked on exhibitions at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University (2010), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (installation, 2002–2006), and the Smith College Museum of Art (1998).

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