Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture Kathryn Babayan

Kathryn Babayan

Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran

Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Harvard University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Babayan explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.

Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture Kathryn Babayan

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