Iran Colloquium: Anthologizing virtues of devotion in Persianate Hindu hagiographies

As a historian of early modern and modern Persianate intellectual history in South Asia, Jean Arzoumanov works on textual encounters between Islamicate and Indic cultures. In 2021, he obtained his PhD from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 with a dissertation on the representation of Indian sects and ascetics in Indo-Persian literature between the Mughal and colonial periods. In his forthcoming book, he studies the involvement of non-Muslim literati in Persian literary production, and more particularly in the development of Hindu devotional literature in Persian. He is currently finishing his Ludo and Rosane Rocher postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago and will start a research project on the history of Indian astral sciences in Persian at the MPIWG in Berlin