Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ Al-Dīn Lārī

Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-dīn Lārī uncovers the underexplored historical vision of sixteenth-century scholar whose work spanned the Safavid, Timurid, and Ottoman worlds.

Nilab Saeedi is Research Associate at the Institute of Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in History with a focus on Islamic Intellectual History in 2025 in Istanbul. She also holds an MA in Turkish Literature from Ondokuz Mayıs University and a BA in Linguistics. Her research interests include early modern Ottoman history, Persian historiography, and Islamic intellectual traditions. She has taught courses on art and literature and worked as a translator in Turkish, English, and Persian. She is a contributing editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas, where she interviews scholars of intellectual history and reviews their work