Mohammad Golshan’s Lecture JUDEO-PERSIAN IN THE HISTORY OF IRAN AND AS A LANGUAGE OF RECOMPILING MEDICINE
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About the Presenter
Mohammad Golshan is currently pursuing a joint double-program PhD in Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen in Germany and in Terrains, textes, interdisciplinarité (2TI) at EHESS in France. His main focus is on the history of medical science in the early modern global history. Currently, He is working on the feminine body in Indo-Persian medical and occult texts of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries. Along with Judeo-Persian codicology, he is also interested in Judeo-Persian medical writings, folk medicine, divination, and magic in Iran and Central Asia, specifically in texts from the 15th to the 19th century in Iran and Bukhara.
Annotation
The medical texts that were recompiled in Judeo-Persian are among the sources that have not received the attention they truly merit. A significant collection of Judeo-Persian medical manuscripts, which are recompilations of medieval Persian medical texts, is housed in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. While there may be similarities in their codicological features, it is essential to examine them as discrete cases. This lecture proposes a general examination of one of these sources in The Library of JTS, Kifāyat-i Manṣūrī, along with a practice of reading some excerpts of the text as an interactive learning endeavor. This lecture will encompass two primary components as well: an exposition of the sources stored in the Library of JTS and a historical background of writing in Judeo-Persian in Persianate world context.
Working language: English
Time: December 25, 16:00
Location: Ilia State University, 201/202 meeting hall of Building S, Acad. G. Tsereteli Street N3
Attendance is free.
2025