Fifteenth-Century Central Asian Text: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity – Presentation by Daniel Beben

From the Institute of Ismaili Studies Symposium: Before the Printed Word: Texts, Scribes and Transmission.

Daniel Beben discusses the earliest text from Badakshan since the time of Nasir Khusraw.

Fifteenth-Century Central Asian Text: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity - Presentation by Daniel Beben
Click on the image to watch this recorded presentation, starting at 3:48:00 to 4:20:00.

Daniel Beben’s forthcoming book is The Memoirs of Aga Khan I: Text Edition and English Translation of the ʿIbrat-afzā of Muḥammad Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī Āqā Khān Maḥallātī (London: I.B. Tauris and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, forthcoming in spring 2018).

https://shss.nu.edu.kz/faculty/daniel-beben

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