Farzin Vejdani's research while affiliated with Ryerson University and other places
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Publications (7)
This article adopts a spatially grounded approach to the study of everyday urban crime involving ruffians (lutis), seminarians, and sayyids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad). It begins by considering the types of crimes and punishments prevalent in Qajar Iran before examining the spatial exceptions to the operation of law in the form of sanctua...
Nobuaki Kondo, Islamic Law and Society in Iran: A Social History of Qajar Tehran (New York: Routledge, 2017). Pp. 210. $149.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780415711371 - Volume 50 Issue 2 - Farzin Vejdani
It is often assumed that Indo-Iranian cultural entanglements disappeared by the early twentieth century because of the rise of imperialism and colonialism, exclusionary forms of nationalism, and the accompanying loss of certain linguistic competencies. This article calls into question the supposed disappearance of exchange between Iran and India in...
Iranian graduates of the American University of Beirut (AUB) constitute a neglected cross-section of an emerging middle class in the Middle East. Although the majority of students attending AUB were Arabs from the Ottoman Empire and later post-Ottoman Arab states, there was a notable non-Arab population including Iranians. Many felt an elective aff...
This book provides a novel perspective on the relationship between institutions, the position of individual historians in relation to the state, and the contours of specific interpretations of the past in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iran. It advances debates about Iranian nationalist historiography beyond a consideration of a few “...
This article explores the connection between individuals, spaces, and daily crime in the shrine city of Mashhad during 1913-4. It challenges the prevailing emphasis on the city’s sacred status by highlighting the frequency and nature of illicit activities often involving urban non-elites. Using the Mashhad police newspaper Ettelā‘āt-e Yawmiya, it r...
