Dr. Speziale is an Associate Professor (maître de conférences) in Persian Studies at the Department of Arabic, Hebrew, Indian and Iranian Studies in University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. He is also the principal investigator of the Perso-Indica project, whose aim is to produce a comprehensive survey of Persian works on Indian cultures, written between the 13th and the 19th centuries in South Asia.
Dr. Shahbaz is a Postdoctoral Fellow attached to the Perso-Indica project and the ‘Mondes Indien et Iranien’ Research Unit at University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. The aim of the Perso-Indica project is to produce a comprehensive survey of Persian works on Indian cultures, written between the 13th and the 19th centuries in South Asia.
The Perso-Indica project, which is of particular interest to the Centre, examines the history of Persian texts on Indian culture and aims at offering a new epistemic vision of the history of contacts between Muslim and Indian scholarly traditions.