Ahmad Azizy. "From pedlar to industrial pioneer and back: a Jewish merchant in modernising Afghanistan, 1920s–1940s." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society First View (2026): 1-20.
Dr. Ahmad Azizy
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Literacy practices in Persianate and Turkic societies
- Oral and written communication
- Letter-writing cultures in Afghanistan
- Jewish Culture and History in Afghanistan and Central Asia
- Migration Studies
EDUCATION
2010 B.A. in Area Studies Asia/Africa, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2013 M.A. in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2023 Dr. Phil (PhD) in Central Asian Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
ACADEMIC CAREER
Since July 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences
2017–2021 Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2008 – 2013 Research Assistant, Central Asian Seminar, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
GRANTS AND RESEARCH PROJECT
Research grant
2015 – 2018 PhD Scholarship, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
Study grants
- 07/2019 Summer School, Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna
- 08/2018 Summer School, Reading and Analyzing Indo-Persian Documents, Department of Iranian Studies, University of Göttingen
- 08/2016 – 09/2016 Summer School, Sogdians and Turks on the Silk Road, Berlin and Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
- 09/2011 – 10/2011 DAAD Go-East Summer School, Kazakh Language and Regional Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan
- 09/2008 – 10/2008 DAAD Go-East Summer School, Uzbek Language and Regional Studies, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Ongoing research project
- Postdoctoral researcher in the project “The Jewish Triangle: Connections and Disruptions in Persianate Jewish Life during the 19th and 20th Centuries”
- Revising my PhD thesis for publication as a monograph
