Sussan Babaie is Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has previously taught and resesarched at Smith College, the University of Michigan and as the Allianz Visiting Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.Her exhibitions include the guest-curated Strolling in Isfahan at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University and she is the co-editor of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and the award-winning monograph, Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran.

• The Idea of IranGeorge Lane, SOASConcepts of Government and State Formation in Mongol IranCharles Melville, University of CambridgeBeyond History: Rashid al-Din and Iranian KingshipStefan Kamola, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityA Glimpse into the Unique Manuscript, the Safineh from TabrizAli-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden UniversityImages of Iranian Kingship on Secular Ilkhanid TilesTomoko Masuya, University of TokyoApplying a Diachronic Perspective in Reconstructing Precedents for the Illustrations in the Great Mongol ShahnamaOlga M. Davidson, Boston UniversityThe Mausoleum of Uljaytu and the Citadel of Sul'aniyyaMarco G. Brambilla, MGBDomusThe Maragha School and its Impact on Post-Mongol Science in the Islamic worldTofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, RiversideThe Iranian Interlude: from Mongol Decline to Tamerlane’s InvasionShivan Mahendrarajah, University of St. AndrewsSufism in late Mongol and early Timurid Persia from ‘Ala’ al-Dawla Simnani (d. 736/1326) to Shah Qasim Anvar (d. 837/1434)Leonard Lewisohn, University of ExeterArchitecture in the Interregnum: the Mozaffarid, Jalayerid and Kartid ContributionsBernard O'Kane, American University in CairoPersian Narrative Poetry in the Eighth/Fourteenth - early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries and the Legacy of Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh’Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Sussan Babaie is Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She has previously taught and resesarched at Smith College, the University of Michigan and as the Allianz Visiting Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.Her exhibitions include the guest-curated Strolling in Isfahan at the Sackler Museum of Harvard University and she is the co-editor of Persian Kingship and Architecture (I.B.Tauris, 2015) and the award-winning monograph, Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shiism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran.

• The Idea of IranGeorge Lane, SOASConcepts of Government and State Formation in Mongol IranCharles Melville, University of CambridgeBeyond History: Rashid al-Din and Iranian KingshipStefan Kamola, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityA Glimpse into the Unique Manuscript, the Safineh from TabrizAli-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leiden UniversityImages of Iranian Kingship on Secular Ilkhanid TilesTomoko Masuya, University of TokyoApplying a Diachronic Perspective in Reconstructing Precedents for the Illustrations in the Great Mongol ShahnamaOlga M. Davidson, Boston UniversityThe Mausoleum of Uljaytu and the Citadel of Sul'aniyyaMarco G. Brambilla, MGBDomusThe Maragha School and its Impact on Post-Mongol Science in the Islamic worldTofigh Heidarzadeh, University of California, RiversideThe Iranian Interlude: from Mongol Decline to Tamerlane’s InvasionShivan Mahendrarajah, University of St. AndrewsSufism in late Mongol and early Timurid Persia from ‘Ala’ al-Dawla Simnani (d. 736/1326) to Shah Qasim Anvar (d. 837/1434)Leonard Lewisohn, University of ExeterArchitecture in the Interregnum: the Mozaffarid, Jalayerid and Kartid ContributionsBernard O'Kane, American University in CairoPersian Narrative Poetry in the Eighth/Fourteenth - early Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries and the Legacy of Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh’Julia Rubanovich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem