Minstrel Poetry from the Pamir Mountains ─ A Study on the Songs and Poems of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan

Contributor Biography - English Gabrielle Rachel van den BergMA Persian: February 1991PhD Persian: October 19972003-2006 Lecturer in Persian, Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, University of Leiden 2001-2004 Researcher for the project 'A Pictorial Corpus of the Shahnama', University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh2000-2003 Researcher for the project 'Living Traditions of the Ismaili World: The Case of Tajik Badakhshan', Institute of Ismaili Studies, London2002-2003 Lecturer in Persian, IPHO, University of Brussels (ULB)1998-2001 E.G. Browne Lecturer in Persian, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge1997-1998 Lecturer in Persian, Department of Languages and Cultures of the Islamic Middle East, University of Leiden 1992-1996 Researcher at the School CNWS for Asian, African and Amerindian Studies, University of Leiden