Theses and dissertations

Narratives of grievance and victimization in Iranian foreign policy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and President Mahmood Ahmadinejad
2023
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

Mythical models: reflections of Iranian traditions in the classical accounts of Median and early Achaemenid royalty
2022
Supervised by Professor Tom Harrison and Dr Tim Greenwood

Myth and mobilisation in contemporary Iranian foreign policy
2021
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

Marginal pioneer poetry between the 1920s and 1960s in Iran
2021
Supervised by Dr Saeed Talajooy, School of Modern Languages

The influence of Achaemenid royal ideology and court practice on Alexander the Great
2020
Supervised by Professor Thomas Harrison

The critique of ideology and resistance in Naser-e Khosrow’s poetry
2020
Supervised by Dr Saeed Talajooy

Iran’s role in Afghanistan in the modern era: Leveraging influence for regional supremacy
2020
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

The impact of the modernisation of Iran on Kurdish society (1920-1979): Modernity, modernisation, and social change
2019
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari and Dr Saeed Talajooy

Can I play with madness? American missionaries in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s
2019
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

Realism, rationalism and revolutionism in Iran’s foreign policy: The West, the state and Islam
2018
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari and Professor Thomas Diez (Tübingen)
Funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Bandwagon for profit: Egyptian foreign policy toward Iran
2017
Supervised by Professors Ali M Ansari and Raymond A Hinnesbusch

The mechanics of diplomacy between the east Roman and Sasanian empires in late antiquity (c. 485-630 CE)
2016
Supervised by Dr Tim Greenwood

Secretly familiar: Public secrets of a post traumatic diaspora
2015
Supervised by Dr Mattia Fumanti

‘Bomb’, ‘sanction’, or ‘engage’?: The theory/political practice of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the American perspective (1998-2014)
2015
Supervised by Professor Karin M Fierke

The influence of Achaemenid Persia on fourth-century and early Hellenistic Greek tyranny
2015
Supervised by Dr Sian Lewis

In the belly of the bear? Soviet-Iranian relations during the reign of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
2015
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari
Funded by the Khayami Foundation

State and aristocracy in the Sasanian Empire
2014
Supervised by Dr Tim Greenwood
Funded by Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH)

The dynamics of literary translation: A case study from English to Persian
2014
Supervised by Professor Paul Luft and Dr Clive Sneddon

The development of the legal parameters of the waqf institution in contemporary Iran and its socioeconomic impact
2014
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

The formless empire: The evolution of indigenous Eurasian geopolitics
2014
Supervised by Dr Andrew J Williams

Saving Muslim women in the era of the Axis of Evil?: Pious women’s movement advocates in Iran, 2001-2010
2014
Supervised by Professors Ali M Ansari and Raymond A Hinnesbusch

A failed alliance and expanding horizons: Relations between the Austrian Habsburgs and the Safavid Persians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
2014
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

The Persian gateway: International trade between the seventh and ninth centuries
2013 [Posthumously]
Supervised by Dr Tim Greenwood

“We belong to the future, the tyrants belong to the past”: The Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime’s foreign policy discourse and behaviour in the period 2005 until 2011
2012
Supervised by Professors Ali M Ansari and Raymond A Hinnesbusch

The development of Islamic political thought in relation to the West during the mid-twentieth century
2011
Supervised by Professor Ali M Ansari

Framed intimacy: Representation of women in transnational cinemas
2011
Supervised by Dr David Martin-Jones

Defending the “Satanic Verses”: Constructive engagement, British-Iranian relations and the right to freedom of expression (1989-2004)
2008
Supervised by Professors Ali M Ansari and Raymond A Hinnesbusch

Punishment across borders: Transnational conceptions of punishment; the conception of punishment in classical Athens, Islam and international criminal justice
2006
Supervised by Professor Nicholas J Rengger

Napoleon of Persia? Nader Shah’s Legacy and Historical Memory
2023 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari

“Good boys in the Iranian book” Ireland, Iran and the IRA 1976-1993
2023 Supervised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

Romanticising the ‘Persians’: Edward G. Browne’s Grand-Narrative of Iranian Identity
2022 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari

The Fourteenth-century History Mawāhib-i Ilāhī in the Context of Intellectual Atmosphere of Shiraz
2022 Supervised by Professor Andrew Peacock

The Social Origins of the Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran, 1964-1972
2021 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari and Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

A Study of the Role of the Velayat-e Faqih under Ayatollah Khamenei
2021 Supervised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

The Populist Rhetoric of the 1979 Revolution in Iran: Historical Roots and Innovations
2021 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari

Mohammad Khatami’s ‘Dialogue of Civilizations’ in Conceptual-Historical Context
2021 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari

Iranian Identity in Iranian Pop music (1970 –2020)
2020 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari

Activist Historiographies. The Case of Bizhan Jazani’s Prison Works
2019 Supervised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

Dayeaks: Fostering in Early Medieval Armenia 4th-7th Century
2019 Supervised by Dr Tim Greenwood

Challenging narratives of ‘Missionary’ Ismaʿilism in Buyid Iran: Reconsidering the Sīra of al-Muʾayyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī through socio-economic contextualisation
2019 Supervised by Professor Andrew Peacock

The relationship of British India with Iran (1900-1947)
2019 Supervised by Professor Ali Ansari