A Khurasani Sufi ṭāʾifa faces the Mongol conquest: female leadership, land ownership patterns, and nomad- sedentary interactions - Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz (Cambridge)

Sign up for Zoom Add to Calendar 10/31/2025 02:00 PM 10/31/2025 03:00 PM Europe/London A Khurasani Sufi ṭāʾifa faces the Mongol conquest: female leadership, land ownership patterns, and nomad- sedentary interactions - Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz (Cambridge) Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz is and Issac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Clare Hall, affiliated to the Fac Location of the event
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Poppies and other vegetation blooming in the Spring in Khurasan

Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz is and Issac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Clare Hall, affiliated to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

He was awarded a BA in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) at the University of Oxford in 2018. Subsequently, he obtained an MLitt in Medieval Middle Eastern History from the University of St Andrews in 2019, going on to complete his doctorate there in 2024. He was a PhD fellow at the Anamed Institute at Koç University in Istanbul in 2022-3.

His research centres around the history of the Eastern Islamic world in the 10th to 13th centuries, encompassing the Saffarid, Buyid, Ghaznavid, Great Seljuq and Khwarazmshahi dynasties. Working across diverse textual genres, he employs manuscript material in Arabic, Persian, and several Turkic languages. At Clare Hall, he aims to produce the first comprehensive study of textual production patterns under the Khwarazmshahi Empire, a vast yet under-researched polity known largely for its dramatic destruction by the armies of Genghis Khan.