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Mushegh Asatryan

PhD

Sample Publications

“Bankers and Politics: 8th c. Kufan Moneychangers and their role in the Shiʻa Community”, Journal of Persianate Studies (2014) “Iranian Elements in Arabic: the State of Research,” Iran and the Caucasus 10.1 (2006): 87-106.

Scholarly Interests

Religious and intellectual history of the medieval Islamic Middle East, Religion and social change in early Islam, Religious networks and literatures in the Middle East, Millenarian movements in Islam, Early Shi‘ism, ‘Extremist’ Shi’i (ghulat) movements (Nusayris, etc.)