Ashk Dahlén
Associate Professor
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Middle East and Africa
Norwegian
Email
ashk.dahlen@ikos.uio.no
Phone
+47-22854799
Fax
+47-22854828
Room
383 PAM
Available hours
By appointment
Username
Visiting address
P. A. Munchs hus
3. etg.
Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Postal address
Orientalske språk
Postboks 1010 Blindern
0315 OSLO
Official Website: The Official Website of Ashk Dahlén
Academic Interests
My overall research interest is Persian cultural history with emphasis on continuities between Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. I have special competency in Persian literature, poetics and philology in the Iranian cultural renaissance (c. 900–1300). This renaissance occured in the Iranian cultural sphere, covering the whole of present-day Iran, Afghanistan, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
My area of specialization also includes Iranian religious history, particularly Zoroastrianism, Sufism and Shi'ite thought in modern Iran. My doctoral thesis focused on contemporary Iranian intellectual debates and was published at Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in 2003.
Teaching
Asian and African Studies (AAS)
Higher education and employment history
- Associate professor in Persian 2009– at University of Oslo
- Postdoctoral researcher 2006–2009 ved The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Stockholm University
- Postdoctoral researcher 2002–2004 at Tehran University and Malek Library. Two-year scholarship from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
- Ph.D in in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University in 2002
- Researcher at The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and Süleymaniye Manuscript Library in 2001
- B.A. in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University in 1996
- Born 1972 in Tehran
Functions
- Founding President, The Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies
- Member of editorial board, Dragomanen. Årsskrift utgiven av Svenska forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul
- Member of forskarkollegium, The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Honoraria
- Beskow Award 2004, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities – Distinguished dissertation in the field of human sciences
- The Global Village Lecture Award 2002, Children of Abraham Foundation – Lecture title: "Love as the Path to Wisdom: Mysticism in the Poetry of Jalal al-din Rumi"
Links
- Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies
- Foundation for Iranian Studies
- The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies
- Encyclopeadia Iranica
- Societas Iranologica Europaea
- Mondes Iranien et Indien
- Iran Heritage Foundation
- Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Indo-Iranian Languages Resources at UiO
Publications
- Modern persisk grammatik, Stockholm, 2010.
- Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran, New York, 2003.
- Transcendent Hermeneutics of Supreme Love: Rumi's Concept of Mystical Appropriation, Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, 2003.
- The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandariyāt of Fakhr al-din ʽArāqi, Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, 2004.
- Sirāt al-mustaqim: One or Many? Religious Pluralism Among Muslim Intellectuals in Iran, The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought, red. Ibrahim Abu-Rabi, Oxford, 2006.
- The Hermeneutics of Post-modern Islam: The Case of ‘Abdol-Karim Sorush, Religious Texts in Iranian Languages, ed. Fereydun Vahman och Claus V. Pedersen, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 2007.
- Sufi Islam, The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations, ed. Peter B. Clarke & Peter Beyer, New York, 2009.
- Female Sufi Saints and Disciples: Women in the life of Jalāl al-din Rumi, Orientalia Suecana, vol. 57, Uppsala, 2008.
- Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi ʽAruzi,
Orientalia Suecana, vol. 58, Uppsala, 2009.
- Dahlén, Ashk Peter (2011). The Image of Zoroaster in the Dāstān-e Goshtāsp (Tale of Goshtāsp). Orientalia Suecana. ISSN 0078-6578. 60
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Det persiska nyåret under antiken. Medusa. Svensk tidsskrift för antiken. ISSN 0349-456X. (1)
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Det persiska nyårets mytologi, historiska bakgrund och kontinuitet. Orientaliska studier. ISSN 0345-8997. (124), s 36- 53
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Kyros den store: Perserrikets grundare. Medusa. Svensk tidsskrift för antiken. ISSN 0349-456X. (4), s 19- 25
- Dahlén, Ashk (2009). Hâfiz ställning inom klassisk persisk poesi . Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademiens årsbok. ISSN 0083-6796. s 79- 93
- Dahlén, Ashk (2009). Kingship and Religion in a Mediaeval Fürstenspiegel: The Case of the Chahār Maqāla of Nizāmi ʽAruzi. Orientalia Suecana. ISSN 0078-6578. 58
- Dahlén, Ashk (2009). Sufi Islam, In Peter Clarke & Peter Beyer (ed.), The world's religions : continuities and transformations. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-39725-4. Kapitel.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2008). Female Sufi Saints and Disciples: Women in the life of Jalāl al-din Rumi. Orientalia Suecana. ISSN 0078-6578. 57
- Dahlén, Ashk (2007). Droit(s) chemin(s). Le pluralisme religieux chez les intellectuels iraniens, I: Sabrina Mervin (red.), Les mondes chiites et l'Iran. Karthala. ISBN 978-2-84586-888-5. L'Iran des débats. s 381 - 417
- Dahlén, Ashk (2007). The Hermeneutics of Post-modern Islam: The Case of ‘Abdol-Karim Sorush, In Claus V. Pedersen & Fereydun Vahman (ed.), Religious Texts in Iranian Languages: Symposium held in Copenhagen May 2002. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. ISBN 978-87-7304-317-2. VIII 20th Century Islamic Texts. s 381 - 408
- Dahlén, Ashk (2006). Sirat al-mustaqim: One or Many? Religious Pluralism Among Muslim Intellectuals in Iran, In Ibarhim Abu-Rabi' (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-4051-2174-2. 25. s 425 - 448
- Dahlén, Ashk (2004). Ivan Aguéli - en banbrytare inom västeuropeisk sufism. Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift. ISSN 0283-0302. 13, s 52- 59
- Dahlén, Ashk (2004). The Holy Fool in Medieval Islam: The Qalandarīyāt of Fakhr al-dīn 'Arāqī. Orientalia Suecana. ISSN 0078-6578. 53, s 63- 81
- Dahlén, Ashk (2002). Sufismens rötter i Centralasien : den formativa perioden 900-1500. Dragomanen. ISSN 1402-358X. 6, s 15- 36
- Dahlén, Ashk (2002). Transcendent Hermeneutics of Supreme Love: Rûmiś Concept of Mystical "Appropriation". Orientalia Suecana. ISSN 0078-6578. 51-52, s 75- 88
- Dahlén, Ashk (2001). Jalâl al-dîn Rûmis sufiska kärleksbegrepp : en fenomenologisk studie om poesi och mystik. Svensk religionshistorisk årsskrift. ISSN 0283-0302. 10, s 76- 109
- Utas, Bo & Dahlén, Ashk (2011). Den persiska litteraturen: Essäer. Molin & Sorgenfrei förlag. ISBN 978-91-977513-1-5. 256 s.
- Utas, Bo & Dahlén, Ashk (2011). Den persiska litteraturen: Översättningar. Molin och Sorgenfrei förlag. ISBN 978-91-977513-2-2. 254 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Modern persisk grammatik. Ferdosi Publication. ISBN 978-91-977241-8-0. 456 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Nizami 'Aruzi, Fyra skrifter. Bokförlaget Atlantis. ISBN 978-91-7353-367-6. 190 s.
- Eklind, Kent & Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Iran: dåtid och nutid. Ferdosi Publication. ISBN 9789197724111. 304 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2009). Jalal al-din Rumi, Vassflöjtens sång. Ellerströms förlag. ISBN 978-91-7247-212-9. 58 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk & Sorgenfrei, Simon (red.) (2008). Kärleken begär att detta tal skall fram: Jalal ud-din Rumis liv, lära och lyrik. Molin & Sorgenfrei. ISBN 978-91-977513-0-8. 172 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2007). Shams al-din Hafiz, Dikter. Rosengårdens förlag. ISBN 978-91-85503-04-9. 156 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2003). Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity: Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94529-1. 412 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2001). Deciphering the Meaning of Revealed Law: The Surūshian Paradigm in Shi'i Epistemology. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 91-554-5189-6. 383 s.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2011). Arvet efter Kyros: Perserrikets glömde fredsfurste. Dragomanen. ISSN 1402-358X. 13, s 62- 73
- Dahlén, Ashk (2011). Den skönlitterära prosan efter 1945, I: Den persiska litteraturen: Essäer. Molin & Sorgenfrei förlag. ISBN 978-91-977513-1-5. Modern litteratur. s 178 - 194
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Historiska förbindelser mellan Sverige och Iran från vikingatid till 1970-talet, I: Iran: dåtid och nutid. Ferdosi Publication. ISBN 9789197724111. Introduction.
- Dahlén, Ashk (2010). Mellan Persepolis och Bombay: zoroastrier i exil, I: Guido Zeccola (red.), Det sakrala: Texter om det sakrala och det heliga. H:ström. ISBN 978-91-7327-148-6. 1. s 28 - 33
- Dahlén, Ashk (2001). Sufismen i det moderna Iran, I: David Westerlund (red.), Levande sufism. Bokförlaget Nya Doxa. ISBN 91-578-0383-8. Iran. s 118 - 142
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