In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle East.

Judith Pfeiffer, Ph.D. (2003), The University of Chicago, is University Lecturer at the University of Oxford. She has published extensively on the Islamicate history of the 13th-16th centuries, including History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East, (Harrassowitz, 2006).