Staff – 3rd phase of research

Dr. David Durand-Guédy

Main fields of research:

Rule and Kingship in Saljuq Iran • Local Elites • Pre-Mongol Historiography in Arabic and Persian Edition of sources • Medieval Persian poetry as an historical source •Diplomatic practices

Since July 2010 research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 586 "Difference and Integration" • 2008-2010 the University of Tokyo, Tobunken/Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, (JSPS post-doc fellow) • 2004 PhD in history, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence • 2000-2008 Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, Tehran (doct. fellowship, then associate researcher, then CNRS fellow in 2007-2008) • 1997-2000 Teaching Assistant (Moniteur) at Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence • Arabic, Farsi and Pashto studied at INALCO and Sorbonne.

Selected Publications:

‘Goodbye to the Türkmens? An analysis of the military role played by nomads in Western Iran after the Saljūq conquest (11^th-12^th c.)’ in: Nomadic Military Power, Iran and adjacent areas in the Islamic period, edited by K. Franz and W. Holzwarth, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag (forthcoming 2010).

‘Ruling from the outside. A new perspective on early Turkish kingship in Iran’ in: Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies in Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Mediaeval Worlds, ed. By L. Mitchell and C. Melville, Brill, Leiden (forthcoming 2011).

‘An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandīs of Iṣfahān’ in: The Seljuqs: Islam revitalized? Ed. by C. Lange and S. Mecit, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, (forthcoming 2010).

Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūq Period, Routledge, London & New York, 2009

‘Diplomatic Practice in Saljuq Iran: A Preliminary Study Based on Nine Letters Regarding Saladin’s Campaign in Mesopotamia’, Oriente Moderno, 87 (2), 2008, pp. 271-96.

‘The Political Agenda of an Iranian Adīb at the Time of the Great Saljuqs: Māfarrūkhī’s K. Maḥāsin Iṣfahān put into context’, Nouvelle Revue des Etudes Iraniennes, 1, 2008, pp. 67-105.

‘Jamāl al-Din b. ‘Abd al-Razzāq Eṣfahāni’, Enc. Iranica, vol. XIV, 2008, pp. 436-8.

‘Mémoires d’exilés. Lecture de la chronique des Salğūqides de ‘Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī’, Studia Iranica, 35, 2006, pp. 181-202.

‘Iranians at War under Turkish Domination: the Example of Pre-Mongol Isfahan’, Iranian Studies, 38(4), December 2005, pp. 587-606.

 ‘Un fragment inédit de la chronique des Salğūqides de ‘Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī: le chapitre sur Tāğ al-Mulk’, Annales Islamologiques, 39, 2005, pp. 205-22.