Shahla Farghadani

PhD program: Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies

I am broadly interested in the history and literary historiography of the Persianate world with a particular focus on the early modern period. My research at Michigan is primarily focused on Sufism and Shi’ism in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. I am also interested in examining the history of gender and sexuality in the above-mentioned contexts.