David Durand-Guédy
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Research Associate
DFG Project "Persian letters from the ‘second Iran’. Edition and analysis of an inshāʾ work written in mid-thirteenth century Anatolia (MS Marʿashī 11136, fol. 1-92)"
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David Durand-Guédy has been conducting a DFG-funded research project entitled “Persian letters from the ‘second Iran’. Edition and analysis of an inshāʾ work written in mid-thirteenth century Anatolia (MS Marʿashī 11136, fol. 1-92)” since March 2023.
Durand-Guédy (PhD 2004 Aix-en-Provence) is a historian specialised in eleventh- to thirteenth-century Iran and the wider Persianate world.
He pursued his studies in Paris (ENS Font./St-Cloud, Sorbonne, INALCO) and spent most of his academic career in Tehran. He has held various fellowships at the Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (Tehran), the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (the Univ. of Tokyo), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (Koç Univ., Istanbul). In Germany, he conducted previous research as a member of the SFB 586 Differenz und Integration (Halle, Saale) and a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (Hamburg).
His monograph Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers. A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūq Period has received awards from the International Society for Iranian Studies and the Ketab-e Sāl Institute (Iran).
His publications primarily focus on the transformation of Iranian society during the Saljuq period. He has thoroughly examined with the role of the nomads, the Ismailis, urban history and the spatial dynamics of Saljuq kingship. He has also published on historiography, including the historical potential of poetical sources. His engagement with manuscripts dates back to his first publication (on the unicum manuscript of ʿImād al-Dīn Iṣfahānī’s chronicle of the Saljuqs). More recently, he has been involved in a project dedicated to personal manuscripts, with his latest publication being a collective volume co-edited with Jürgen Paul, Personal Manuscripts: Copying, Drafting, Taking Notes, 2023).
He has already published three articles related to the manuscript at the core of his research project at the AAI.
Most of his publications can be found on his page at https://independent.academia.edu/DDurandGuedy.