About
Alyssa Gabbay
Alyssa Gabbay is a cultural historian whose work on the medieval and early modern Persianate world sits at the intersections of literature, gender, and history. Dr. Gabbay received her Ph.D. in Classical Persian Literature and Islamic Civilization in 2007 from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, with a secondary specialization in medieval Islamic history. Her monograph, Islamic Tolerance: Amir Khusraw and Pluralism, will be published by Routledge’s Iranian Studies series in January 2010.
Dr. Gabbay’s research is heavily informed by her time in India, where she spent nine months in 2006 as a Fulbright-Hays fellow, and in Iran, where she studied in 2003 as an American Institute of Iranian Studies fellow.
Masjid-i Imam, Isfahan