Hossein (Kaveh) Kardgar is a research associate at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen, beginning in October 2024. He earned a BA and MA in Persian Literature and Language from the University of Tehran and a second MA in Iranian Studies from the University of Göttingen, focusing on "Safavid Princes and Pretenders after the Fall of Isfahan." His doctoral thesis explores Jafari Madhhab: Nadir Shah’s policy to integrate Shia as the fifth sect of Sunnism.
M.A. Islamwissenschaft / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies faculty course advisor
Accreditation of academic achievements and internships & accreditation issues
Academic certificates for the examination office
Publication
Agah Pishavari, entry in Persian Language and Literature Encyclopaedia in Subcontinent (2016)
Reviews
Lewis, Franklin / Seyed-Gorab, Asghar / Shabani-Jadidi, Pouneh (eds.): The Art of Teaching Persian Literature. From Theory to Practice.. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 199 (224), 282-285.
Lectures
“An Analytical Survey of the Literary Movement and the Poets of the New Wave After the Islamic Revolution,” symposium at St. Andrews University, 2017
“The Approaches of Control and Regulation Forced on Converted Jews in the Safavid Era,” ECIS, August 2023
“Kalīla wa Dimna in Nizami’s Romance Khosrow wa Shīrīn,” AIS Online Symposium, October 2023
