Staff – 3rd phase of research

Dr. David Durand-Guédy

Main fields of research:

Structure of Power in Medieval Iran • Local Elites (Türkmen, Turkish, Iranian) • Historiography • Persian Poetry as a Historical Source

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:

(ed.) Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life, Brill, Leiden, forthcoming 2012.

‘The tents of the Saljuqs’, in D. Durand-Guédy (ed.), Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life, Brill, Leiden, forthcoming 2012.

‘Ruling from the outside. A new perspective on early Turkish kingship in Iran’, in L. Mitchell and C. Melville (eds.), Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies in Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Mediaeval Worlds, Brill, Leiden, forthcoming 2012.

‘Goodbye to the Turkmens? The Military Role of Nomads in Iran after the Saljūq Conquest’, in K. Franz and W. Holzwarth (eds.), Nomadic Military Power, Iran and adjacent areas in the Islamic period, Wiesbaden, Reichert Verlag, forthcoming 2012.

‘Where did the Saljūqs live? A case study based on the reign of sultan Mas‘ūd b. Muḥammad (1134-1152)’, Studia Iranica, 2011, 42, pp. 211-58.

‘The Türkmen-Saljūq relationship in twelfth-century Iran: New elements based on a contrastive analysis of three inshāʾ documents’, in J. Büssow, D. Durand-Guédy and J. Paul (eds.), Nomads in the Political Field, special issue of Eurasian Studies, 9(1-2), 2011, pp. 11-66.

‘An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandīs of Iṣfahān’, in C. Lange and S. Mecit (eds.), The Seljuqs: Politics, society and culture, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2011, pp. 182-202.

Iranian Elites and Turkish Rulers: A History of Iṣfahān in the Saljūq Period, London and New-York, Routledge, 2010.

‘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.