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John Dechant
Indiana University Bloomington
Occupation
Independent Scholar
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Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Central Asian Studies
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
History Of Architecture
Historiography
Medieval
Persian
Arabic
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Islamic World
Central Asia
Languages
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
Chaghatay (intermediate)
Uzbek (advanced)
German (intermediate)
English (native)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2015 | Near Eastern Languages & Cultures | Indiana University
MA | 2008 | Center for Middle Eastern Studies | University of Chicago
BA | 2006 | History | SUNY Geneseo
Abstracts
Silsila-Consciousness, Sufi-Transmission, and the non-existent rivalry between the Naqshbandiyya and the Shaykhs of J?m Zayn Al-Din-i Taybadi and the Construction of Sacred Space in Khurasan Ahmad-i Jam and the Purpose of Miracle Stories in Hagiographic Literature Muslim Shrine Graffiti as a Source for the Study of History, Religion, and Society