Position:

Retired (formerly University Lecturer in Persian History and Culture); Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute / Wadham College

Email:

john.gurney@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Iranian history, especially the Safavids and the Qajars

Current Projects:

• A socio-economic study of Qum in the later nineteenth century
• Tehran in the Qajar period
• A biographical study of Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926)
• A catalogue of the Browne papers in the Cambridge University Library

Recent Publications:

• 'The historiography of Qum in the Naseri period', in Ganjineh-e Shehab-e Shari'at ( Qum , 2001),vol.2,pp.65-94 [in Persian]
• 'Qum in the famine of 1288 qamari/ 1871-72', in Ganjineh-e Shehab-e Shari'at ( Qum , 2002), vol.3, pp.131-200 [in Persian]
• 'Legations and gardens, sahibs and their subalterns', Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies , vol.40 (2002), pp.203-32
• 'The shaikh, the shahzadeh and the scholar: Edward Browne's Safarnameh', in Sayeh sar-e mehrabani( Tehran , 2004), ed. Mostafa Zamani-Nia, pp.437-504. [in Persian]