Dominic Parviz Brookshaw teaches Persian language and medieval Persian literature at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. His recent publications include: ³Palaces, Pavilions and Pleasure-gardens: the Context and Setting of the Medieval majlis,² in Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2003), pp.199-223; Zia'-al-Saltana and Maryam Khanom (respectively 7th daughter and 39th wife of Fath-'Ali Shah Qajar) in Encyclopaedia Iranica (forthcoming).

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