IMC 2006: Sessions

Session 1027: Music across the Mediterranean - From Persia to Al-Andalus, I: Persian Music from the Timurids to the Ottomans

Sponsor:	Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Leeds / Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Organiser:	Gerald Crowson, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Norwich
Moderator/Chair:	Ian Richard Netton, Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1027-a	Music in 15th-Century Herat and Samarqand: Towards a Social History of Music under the Timurids (Language: English) Hooman Asadi, Department of Music, University of Tehran Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Music
Paper 1027-b	Musical Interactions between the Early Safavid and Ottoman Courts (Language: English) Amir Hossein Pourjavady, Department of Music, University of Tehran Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Music
Paper 1027-c	Music and Gender in Safavid Persia (Language: English) Sasan Fatemi, Department of Music, University of Tehran Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Music
Abstract	This session will explore the rich musical life of Persia at a time when it held a position of cultural primacy in the Islamic world.