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Fabrizio Speziale, "Noah’s Grandsons and the Elephant: Functions of Persian Pseudonymous Texts in South Asia"
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies are pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (EHESS). The talk will explore pseudonymous Persian texts as a strategy to domesticate non-Muslim technical knowledge and to legitimize the status of Muslim professional groups in Persianate South Asia. The event will be held in a hybrid format, with online participation available via Zoom.
Lecture Title:
Noah’s Grandsons and the Elephant: Functions of Persian Pseudonymous Texts in South Asia (Abstract below)
Speaker:
Professor Fabrizio Speziale (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Profile: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/personne/fabrizio-speziale
Date:
Monday, 2 June 2025, 18:00–19:30 (JST)
Venue:
Room 305, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tōyō Bunka Kenkyūjo), University of Tokyo and online via Zoom
How to Participate:
(1) In-person attendance: No prior registration is required. Please note: The institute’s entrance doors will no longer be accessible from outside after 18:00. We recommend arriving before that time. A contact telephone number for those arriving late will be posted at the entrance.
(2) Online attendance: Please register at https://forms.gle/hMtJDBoAJ8ujpGaL9. A Zoom link will be sent by noon (JST) on the day of the event.
This lecture is co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Regular Research Project W–1, "Approaches to the 'Persianate World'") and the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies.
Contact Info:
Kazuo Morimoto
Email: morikazu[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Image copyright statement: Fīlnāmah (Book of Elephants), Persian MS 882, Image courtesy of the John Rylands Library, the University of Manchester. Used under CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Cropped from original.
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