Charles P. Melville

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According to Wikipedia, Charles P. Melville is a British academic who has been Professor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge since 2008. He is the President of the British Institute of Persian Studies. He was one of the editors of The Cambridge History of Iran and History of Literature of Iran. He was educated in childhood at Wellington College before reading Arabic and Persian at Pembroke College, Cambridge; he went on to complete an M.A. in Islamic history at SOAS and a Ph.D. on historical seismicity in Iran.

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A history of Persian earthquakes (1982) (1061)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A Historical Review (1994) (287)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea (1994) (70)
The Year of the Elephant (1992) (58)
Anatolia under the Mongols (2009) (51)
Historical evidence of faulting in Eastern Anatolia and Northern Syria (1995) (45)
Seismicity of Yemen (1983) (35)
Evidence for intraplate earthquakes in northwest Arabia (1989) (32)
Persian local histories: views from the wings (2000) (31)
Historical seismicity of the Strait of Dover-Pas de Calais (1996) (31)
The Itineraries of Sultan Öljeitü, 1304-16 (1990) (25)
Safavid Persia : the history and politics of an Islamic society (1996) (21)
45 – Historical Seismicity and Tectonics: The Case of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (2002) (21)
The Seismicity of Kuhistan, Iran (1977) (20)
The Chinese-Iughur animal calendar in Persian historiography on the Mongol period (1994) (20)
A lost source for the reign of Shah cAbbas: the Afzal Al‐tawarih of Fazli Khuzani Isfahani (1998) (19)
Meteorological Hazards and Disasters in Iran: A Preliminary Survey to 1950 (1984) (19)
Every Inch a King (2012) (18)
The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410 (2006) (18)
The fall of Amir Chupan and the decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37 : a decade of discord in Mongol Iran (1999) (17)
“Every Inch a King”. Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (2012) (14)
The seismicity of the British Isles and the North Sea (1983) (12)
Every inch a king : comparative studies on kings and kingship in the ancient and medieval worlds (2013) (10)
Earthquakes in the History of Nishapur (1980) (10)
From Adam to Abaqa : Qadi Baidawi's rearrangement of history (2001) (10)
Historical Monuments and Earthquakes in Tabriz (1981) (9)
The Mongols' Middle East : Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran (2016) (7)
The Mongol and Timurid Periods, 1250–1500 (2012) (7)
The persian famine of 1870-1872: prices and politics. (1988) (7)
The Royal Image in Mongol Iran (2013) (7)
The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's "Shahnama" (2008) (7)
The Keshjg in Iran: The Survival of the Royal Mongol Household (2006) (7)
Shahnama Studies II The Reception of Firdausi s Shahnama (2012) (6)
Epic of the Persian kings : the art of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (2010) (6)
From Adam to Abaqa : Qādī Baidāwī's rearrangement of history (Part II) (2007) (6)
Rashīd al-Dīn and the Shāhnāmeh (2016) (5)
The Illustration of History in Persian Manuscripts (2018) (5)
Volcanic Hazards. A Sourcebook on the Effects of Eruptions by R.J. Blong. (1986) (5)
8. The Itineraries of Shāhrukh b. Timur (1405-47) (2013) (5)
New Light on Shah ʿAbbas and the Construction of Isfahan (2016) (5)
The Caspian provinces: a world apart three local histories of Mazandaran (2000) (4)
The historical seismicity of England. (1981) (4)
13 The End of the Ilkhanate and After: Observations on the Collapse of the Mongol World Empire (2016) (4)
Reflections on the late earthquake in North Wales on 19th July 1984. (1984) (3)
Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan⋆ (2010) (3)
Between Firdausi and Rashid al-Din: Persian verse chronicle of the Mongol period (2007) (3)
A note on the distribution of newspapers in England and Wales (1986) (3)
THE TRADITIONAL IRANIAN CITY IN THE QāJāR PERIOD (1991) (3)
Persian and Islamic studies : in honour of P.W. Avery (1990) (3)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: Conclusions (1994) (3)
The Illustration of the Turko-Mongol Era in the Berlin Diez Albums (2016) (2)
Shahnama: the Millennium of an Epic Masterpiece (2010) (2)
Shah ʿAbbas: The King who Refashioned Iran By Sholeh A. Quinn (2018) (2)
A chronicle of the reign of Shah ʿAbbas (2015) (2)
The Historian at Work (2018) (2)
Visualising Tamerlane: History and its Image (2019) (2)
The 1934 floods in Tabriz, N. W. Iran. (1983) (2)
The reception of Firdausi's Shahnama (2012) (1)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: Introduction (1994) (1)
Shahnama Studies III (2012) (1)
Proceedings of the third European Conference of Iranian Studies : held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995 (1998) (1)
The ‘Arts of the Book’ and the Diffusion of Persian Culture (2012) (1)
Review: Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia Thomas T. Allsen Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia (2004) (1)
History: from the Saljuqs to the Aq Qoyunlu (ca. 1000–1500 C.E.) (1998) (1)
Beatrice Forbes Manz: The rise and rule of Tamerlane , xi, 227 pp. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. £27.50. (1991) (0)
Metascientific aspects of topoi of spaces (1991) (0)
The Persians – Gene R. Garthwaite (2006) (0)
On Some Manuscripts of Hatifi’s Timurnama (2021) (0)
Professor David Orrin Morgan (29 April 1945–23 October 2019) (2020) (0)
WILLEM FLOOR, Safavid Government Institutions (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2001). Pp. 321. $29.95 paper. (2003) (0)
Persian historiography to the end of the twelfth century . By Julie Scott Meisami. (Islamic Surveys). pp. 319. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1999. (2000) (0)
Akbar's History of the Timurids (2021) (0)
Reviews (2000) (0)
The Shahnama Project: A digital index of illustrated manuscripts (2014) (0)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: A note on transliteration (1994) (0)
Rudi Matthee, Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), 371 pp. ISBN 978-1-84511-745-0 (2013) (0)
Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 1: Āb - Anāhīd . Edited by Ehsan Yarshater pp. xiv, 1011, illus., maps. London etc., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. £200.00 (1987) (0)
Obituaries (2009) (0)
The caliphate in the West. An Islamic political institution in the Iberian Peninsula . By David J. Wasserstein. pp. xiv, 280. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993. £35.00. (1995) (0)
Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah ᶜAbbas: Ideology, Imitation and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles, Sholeh A. Quinn, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000, ISBN 0–87480–643–7, (hardcover) 197 pp., 4 tables, 2 appendices, index, $32.50. (2002) (0)
Ghazan Khan’s Political Will and Testament: Further Light on the Mongol Household (2019) (0)
The History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz (247/861 to 949/1542–3), C. E. Bosworth, Columbia Lectures on Iranian Studies, no. 8, Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 1994, xviii + 525 pp., 2 maps, 4 tables. (1997) (0)
Conceptions of Learning and Teaching and Their Relation to Educational Variables During Teaching Second Language (2022) (0)
Sultans and Lovers: Gazorgahi’s Tales of Royal Infatuation (2017) (0)
Pure water for thirsty Muslims : a study of Mustafa ' All of Gallipoli ' s Kiinhti l-ahbdr (2008) (0)
The Illustration of Mīrkhwānd's Rauḍat al-ṣafā, RAS Ms. P. 38 (2021) (0)
The Great Islamic encyclopaedia (Dā'irat al-ma‘ārit-i buzurg-i Islāmī) . Vol. I: Āb – Āli dāvūd. Edited by Kazem Musavi Bojnurdi. pp. xxiv, 714, illus., maps. Tehran, Markaz-i dā'irat al-ma'ārif-i buzurg-i Islāmī, 1367/1989 (Persian version). (1990) (0)
Iranian Jewry during the Afghan invasion. The Kitāb-i Sar Guzasht-i Kāshān of Bābāī B. Farhād . By Vera Basch Moreen. (Freiburger Islamstudien, Band XIV.) pp. viii, 178. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1990. DM 98. (1992) (0)
Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 3: Ātaš-Bayhaqī, Ẓahīr-al-Dīn. Vol. 4: Bāyjū-Carpets . Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. Both pp. xxx 896 illus., maps. London and New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1989, 1990. £200 each. (1992) (0)
Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq (2014) (0)
Shiraz in the Age of Hafiz: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City, John Limbert, Publications on the Near East, Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2004, ISBN 0–295–98391–4, xiii + 182 pp., tables, six illustrations, appendix, index. (2006) (0)
Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post‐Safavid Iran. By Ernest S. Tucker. (Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2006. Pp.xv, 150. $65.00.) (2008) (0)
Concepts of Government and State Formation in Mongol Iran (2019) (0)
C. A. Storey: Persian literature: a bio-bibliographical survey. Vol. v, part 1: Poetry to A.D. ca. 1100, by François de Blois . 240 pp. London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1992. £25. (1993) (0)
GEORGE LANE: Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance. (Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey.) xiii, 330 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £55. (2004) (0)
NOTE ON CHRONOLOGY (2020) (0)
In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia by David M. Robinson (review) (2020) (0)
Genghis Khan. The History of the World‐Conqueror, Ata‐Malik Juvayni, trans. and ed. J.A. Boyle with an introduction by David O. Morgan Manchester: University Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, lxvii + 763 pp., 3 maps. (1999) (0)
Encyclopaedia Iranica . Vol. 2: Anāmaka – Āṯār al-Wozarā᾿. Edited by Ehsan Yarshater. pp. xxxi, 912, illus., maps. London etc., Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. £225.00. (1989) (0)
Fantasy and Animal Fables (2014) (0)
Supplementary Handlist of Persian Manuscripts, 1966–1998, Muhammad Isa Waley, London: The British Library, 1998, British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, ISBN 0 7123 46147, 114 pp., indexes, £30. (2000) (0)
The Illustration of Mīrkhwānd's Tārīkh-i Rauḍat al-ṣafā, RAS Ms. P. 38 – CORRIGENDUM (2022) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Christians and Moors in Spain. Vol 3: Arab sources (2018) (0)
The Persians. By Gene R. Garthwaite. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. xviii, 311. $59.95.) (2006) (0)
The History of Progress in Great Britain (2009) (0)
The Near and Middle East (1997) (0)
John D. Yohannan: The poet Sa‘dī: a Persian humanist. (Persian Studies Series no. 11.) xi, 147 pp. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1987. $24.50 (paper $11.75). (1988) (0)
The Seismicity of Egypt, Arabia and the Red Sea: Instrumental information (1994) (0)
Foreword: Illustrating History (2019) (0)
The Manchester earthquake of 14th September 1111: A re-appraisal of contemporary reports (1985) (0)
Beatrice Forbes Manz,Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilisation.) Cambridge, Eng., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xviii, 313; 1 genealogical table and 3 maps. $99. (2010) (0)
The politics of an epic (1993) (0)
Qajar Persia: eleven studies . By A. K. S. Lambton. pp. xviii, 341. London, I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 1987. £24.50. (1988) (0)
In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia. By David M. Robinson (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020) 372 pp. $99.99 (2020) (0)
The Story of a Great Scots School (0)
Tribute (2018) (0)
The Demon Barkhiyas at the Well of Bizhan (2017) (0)
Shah ʿAbbas’s Patronage of the Dynastic Shrine at Ardabil (2020) (0)

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