Mahroo Moosavi
Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
Postal Address: The Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford, OX1 2LG
Mahroo Moosavi is an art/architectural historian, specialised in the arts and architecture of early modern Iran. Her research focuses on the intersections of art and literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries Persianate societies. She is particularly interested in the thematic and architectonic connotations of the textually inscribed objects and the epigraphic programme of the public buildings produced and constructed in the major early modern Iranian cities such as Isfahan and Qazvin.
Her research is also concerned with new readings of the arts of Islam and Iran through blurring the boundaries between the visual and textual cultures, such as in the instances of the illustrated manuscripts and the single-page paintings of the Safavids (1501-1722 AD).
She is leading a seminar series for the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, Oriental Institute on the history, philology, palaeography, and arts of the book of the Safavid majmū‘a(s) [compilations] - as an underrepresented yet significant literary and artistic genre - for which she was awarded a grant from the British Academy to run a conference and exhibition co-hosted by the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford in late 2022.
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