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Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and British Colonial Expansion, 1797–1800
April 12, 2025 | 6:30pm
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
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Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd”
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Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore, and British Colonial Expansion, 1797–1800
April 12, 2025 | 6:30 pm
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
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History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids [ASIA 393]
History of Iran from the Sasanians to the Safavids
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