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Said Reza Huseini specializes in Turko-Indo-Persianate Islamic history, particularly focusing on the regions of Khurasan and North India in the longue durée, spanning from Late Antiquity to the early modern era. His research is based on a wide range of documentary and literary sources, including Bactrian, Sogdian, Middle Persian, and Arabic texts. He takes a connected historical approach to better understand the cultural and intellectual exchanges within the Turko-Indo-Persianiate ecumene. Reza graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, where he studied the history of medieval Central Asia and Early Modern India. He continued his research at Leiden University, completing his MA and writing a thesis on Millennialism in Mughal India. He joined a European Research Council project titled “Embedding Conquests” and completed his PhD dissertation on the Arab Muslim conquests of Bactria. Currently, he is part of King's Silk Roads Project, where he is working on a monograph entitled 'Mongols and Persian Discourse: Continuity and Changes 1252-1582.'
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.