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John Dechant

Ph.D.

Academic Profile

Recent Ph.D. graduate from Indiana University.

Sample Publications

“Depictions of the Islamization of the Mongols in the Manāqib al-‘ārifīn and the Foundation of the Mawlawī Community,” Mawlana Rumi Review 2 (2011), 135-164.

Scholarly Interests

Sufism, saints' cults and hagiographies, history of Iran, Central Asia, and the Persianate World, particularly in the Late Middle Period, art and architecture