#  Sep 29: Job talk - Persianist: Daniel Sheffield (Princeton University) 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 29, 2014** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **HSM 201**  



 

 



 

**The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizationsat Harvard University  
 presents:**

**"On Translation and Toleration: Āẕar Kayvān and Universal Civility in the Early Modern Persianate World"**

**Daniel Sheffield**

**Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow; Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies  
 Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University**

**Monday, September 29, 4:00 p.m. 6 Divinity Avenue, room 201**

 **Abstract:** In the 1570s, a freethinker called Āẕar Kayvān (d. 1618) left Shiraz for Patna, bringing with him the idea that the end of the Muslim millennium would herald a new “Persian Age” (*dawr-i ʻajam*), an era of religious tolerance and sacred kingship. This talk examines the early Safavid context in which these ideas formed, their reflection in contemporary literature, and their reception in Mughal India, presaging Akbar’s Divine Religion (*dīn-i ilāhī*).

**Dr. Sheffield is a candidate for the Persianist position in NELC.**



 

 



 

 

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