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Ferenc P. Csirkes
University of Birmingham
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Central Asian Studies
Persian
Turkish
Turkic Languages
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Iran
Turkey
Specialties
Ottoman Lit
Persian & Turkish Comp Lit
Turkish LIt In Timurid & Safawid Period
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Azeri (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Hungarian (native)
Persian (fluent)
Russian (intermediate)
Turkish (fluent)
Uzbek (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2016 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | The University of Chicago
MA | 2008 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | The University of Chicago
MA | 2006 | Iranian Stds | Eotvos Lorand U
MA | 2003 | Inst of English & Amer Stds | Eotvos Lorand U
MA | 1999 | Turkic Stds | Eotvos Lorand U
Abstracts
Reviving the Ancient Garden, Restoring the Archaic Edifice: Imitation as Originality in Fuzulî’s Leyla and Mecnun Sadiqi Beg and Language Ideologies in Safavid Persia Confessional Politics and Vernacular Turkish in Safavid Iran: A Qizilbash Catechism “For the Benefit of Turkish Disciples, Sufis, and the People of Turkistan:” The Politics of Turkic Translations in Safavid Iran Cross-linguistic Poetic Play in a Time of Tumult: the Divan of Masih of Tabriz from Late and Post-Safavid Iran The Politics of Turkic Literature at the Court of Shah Ismail I Turkic Literature and Language Ideology in Late Safavid and Afsharid Iran Qizilbash Identity in Late Safavid and Afsharid Iran: Resistance, Piety, and Pilgrimage in the Divan of Rahima Turkic Poetry and the “Fresh Style” in Safavid Iran