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.

• Post-Safavid Iran
• Legitimacy and authority
• The interplay of Religion and Political Power
• Persian Literature

Agah Pishavari, entry in Persian Language and Literature Encyclopaedia in Subcontinent (2016)

“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