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Pranav Prakash
University of Oxford
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Instructor
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ABOUT
Pranav Prakash is a Junior Fellow of the Andrew Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, University of Virginia, and a Windgate Fellow at the Center for the Book, University of Iowa. He specializes in the comparative study of religious traditions, literary cultures, and textual materials in South Asian and Persian societies.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Persian
South Asian Studies
Languages
Hindi (native)
Persian (native)
Sanskrit (native)
Urdu (native)
Tajik (advanced)
Bengali (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2020 | Religious Studies | The University of Iowa
MA | 2015 | Religious Studies | The University of Iowa
MA | 2014 | Iranian Studies | University of Tehran
Abstracts
Interweaving Indian Tales and Persian Genres: Akhsitan Dihlavi’s Basatin al-Uns (c. 1325-26)