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Edmund Hayes
University of Chicago
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
7th-13th Centuries
Central Asian Studies
Classical
Cultural Studies
Historiography
Identity/Representation
Iranian Studies
Islamic Thought
Medieval
Middle East/Near East Studies
Persian
Theater
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Central Asia
Iran
Iraq
Islamic World
Tajikistan
Specialties
Early Shi‘ism And Sectarianism
Arabic And Persian Poetry And Belles-lettres
Arabic And Persian Historiography
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
English (native)
French (advanced)
Italian (fluent)
Russian (intermediate)
Tajik (advanced)
Turkish (elementary)
German (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2009 | Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | University of Chicago
BA | 2002 | Oriental studies | Oxford University
Abstracts
The political and institutional role of charismatic bābs in 4th/10th century The political production of the Twelver Occultation doctrine in the late 3rd/9th century and early 4th/10th century