Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800, a lecture by Dr. Murat Umut Inan, hosted by the Persian and Iranian Studies Program and the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program at the University of Washington.
Dr. Murat Umut Inan is the Ahmanson-Getty Post-Doctoral Fellow at the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Centuries Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Washington in 2012. His research interests focus on Ottoman and Persian literatures, and on the literary, cultural and textual relations and transmissions in the medieval and early modern Islamic world. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript entitled Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Literary Reception and Interpretation in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, where he explores the reception of Persian language and literary classics in Ottoman literature, scholarship, and society between 1300-1600.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | CMU 202 | University of Washington
