Kamila Akhmedjanova

Kamila Akhmedjanova is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford working on intellectual history and literature of the 19th-century Persian-speaking world. Before starting her PhD, she completed her BA and MPhil degrees at the University of Oxford, having previously specialised in Italian literature and general linguistics. She also holds an MSt in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford.
Kamila Akhmedjanova has published several academic articles, covering topics related to the 19th-century Persian-speaking intellectual trends, as well as to the methodology of teaching Tajik dialect of Persian. Her first article was dedicated to the study of double past participle forms in the Sicilian dialects, while her most recent published article is dedicated to the interplay of literature and politics in the works of Sadriddin Ayni, a famous Soviet Tajik writer. In addition, her forthcoming article explores the image of Persia in Russian literature.

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2025. ‘Central Asian Progressive Thinker of the End of the 19th Century: Analysis of Ahmad Donish’s Intellectual Legacy’. Studies on Central Asia and the Caucasus (forthcoming). 

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2025. ‘Sadriddīn ‘Aynī’s and Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s Influence on the Creation of Modern Tajik National and Cultural Identity in the 20th Century’. In Tajiks – The People of Khurasan: Their History and Culture (forthcoming).

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2025. ‘Literature and Politics in Early Soviet Central Asia: Case Study of Sadriddin Aini’s Odina and Margi sudkhūr’. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 52.1, pp. 98-124.

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2023. ‘Reanalysis of the Role that Western Ideas Played in the Development of the Ideology of Progressive Persian-speaking Philosophers of the 19th Century’. History of Oriental Studies: Traditions and Modernity, 2, pp. 60-69.

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2021. ‘Teaching Tajiki language to Undergraduate Students with a Prior Knowledge of Farsi’. The Magic of Innovation: Language and Language Teaching in a Changing Environment, pp. 271-276. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo ‘MGIMO-Universitet’.

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2020. ‘Double Past Participle Forms in the Sicilian Dialects’. Typology of Morphosyntactic Parameters, 3.1, pp. 11-33.

Translations and projects

Arnaldi, Marta. 2024. ‘Новый переводческий подход к нарративной медицине: исследование книги Маргериты Гвидаччи Neurosuite’ [‘The Translational Turn in Narrative Medicine: A Study of Margherita Guidacci’s Neurosuite’]. Translated by Kamila Akhmedjanova. Encounters in Translation, 2, DOI: 10.35562/encounters-in-translation.609.

Akhmedjanova, Kamila. 2022. ‘Translation of Duchêne (Tajikistan)’. Soviet Central Asia in 100 Objects, https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/translation-duch-ne-tajikistan-0.

Intellectual history of the Persian-speaking world; history of Central Asia and Iran in the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries; modern Persian literature