Shahnama Studies II The Reception of Firdausi's Shahnama

Charles Melville is Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is currently director of the Shahnama Project and president of The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA), both based in Cambridge. Recent publications include "Epic of the Persian Kings. The Art of Ferdowsi s Shahnameh," with Barbara Brend (London, 2010). Gabrielle van den Berg, Ph.D. (1997), is lecturer in Persian at Leiden University. She has published on classical Persian literature, Tajik poetry, Ismailism and oral traditions of Central Asia. She is the author of "Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains: A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan" (Wiesbaden, 2004).