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The World of Shah Abbas
Symposium - Programme
15-16 May, 2009

BP Lecture Theatre
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG

A symposium that will cover the political, social, economic, and religious policies of Shah Abbas, and his impact on Iran's art and architecture

Friday 15th May9:15-10:00 Registration
10:00 Welcome and introductory remarks: Sheila Canby
10:30 'A year in the life of Shah ʿAbbas I: a historiographical approach'
Charles Melville, University of Cambridge
11:00 '"When the Great Prince ceased to live Persia ceased to prosper": later verdicts on the reign of 'Abbas I'
Andrew Newman, University of Edinburgh
11:30 Tea/coffee
12:00 'Shah Abbas and the Qizilbash: The Struggle over Fars and Kerman'
Rudi Mathee, University of Delaware
12:30 "Remembering the Sufi Past During the Reign of Shah ʿAbbas"
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University
1:00 Lunch
2:30 'Shah Abbas - free trader or mercantilist?'
Willem Floor, independent scholar, Washington, DC
3:00 'Safavid coins:continuation and change'
Vesta Curtis, British Museum
3:30 'Religion and Law in the Reign of Shah ʿAbbas: Shaykh Baha' al-Din al-Amili's legal project'
Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
4:00 Tea
4:30 Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
5:00 'Shah Abbas and His age in the Context of World History'
Masashi Haneda, University of Tokyo
5:20-5:45 Discussion
6:00 Reception

Saturday 16th May10:00 'Architecture and the Representation of Kingship during the reign of Abbas I'
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
10:30 'Chinese Porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: Collecting, Collections, and Display'
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
11:00 'Investigation of the Sarih-al Milk of the Shrine of Shaykh Safi-al din Ardebili'
Mahnaz Rahimifar, National Museum of Iran
11:30 Tea/coffee
12:00 'The Madrasa Khan at Shiraz'
Alireza Anisi, Barakat Trust Fellow, University of Oxford
12:30 'Illustrated Shiraz Manuscripts during the Reign of Shah ʿAbbas I'
Lale Uluç, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
1:00 Lunch
2:30 'Two Muraqqa's in the Golestan Palace Library' [tbc]
Mr. Semsar, Golestan Palace Museum
3:00 Safavid Manuscripts [tbc]
Francis Richard, Universite de Paris, Sorbonne
3:30 The Mantiq al-Tayr from the Ardabil Shrine [tbc]
Eleanor Sims, independent scholar
4:00 Tea
4:30 'Gentlemen of Leisure: influence of the Shah Abbas single-figure style received in Mughal India'
Barbara Brend, independent scholar
5:00 'Safavid versus Ottoman'
Tim Stanley, Victoria and Albert Museum

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Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
19 February - 14 June 2009

The Reading Room
The British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

http://www.iranheritage.org/shahabbas/