Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz
Dr Marc Czarnuszewicz is an Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Clare Hall, affiliated to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
He was awarded a BA in Oriental Studies (Persian and Arabic) at the University of Oxford in 2018. Subsequently, he obtained an MLitt in Medieval Middle Eastern History from the University of St Andrews in 2019, going on to complete his doctorate there in 2024. He was a PhD fellow at the Anamed Institute at Koç University in Istanbul in 2022-3.
His research centres around the history of the Eastern Islamic world in the 10th to 13th centuries, encompassing the Saffarid, Buyid, Ghaznavid, Great Seljuq and Khwarazmshahi dynasties. Working across diverse textual genres, he employs manuscript material in Arabic, Persian, and several Turkic languages. At Clare Hall, he aims to produce the first comprehensive study of textual production patterns under the Khwarazmshahi Empire, a vast yet under-researched polity known largely for its dramatic destruction by the armies of Genghis Khan.
Select publications
- Marc Czarnuszewicz, “New insights into Sistani intellectual culture under the Saffarids”, in The Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 26, (2025), Issue 2, pp. 219-265
- Marc Czarnuszewicz, “Challenging narratives of ‘Missionary’ Ismaʿilism in Buyid Iran: reconsidering the Sira of al-Muʾayyad fī al-Din al-Shirazi through socio-economic contextualisation”, in Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, Volume 61 (2023), Issue 1, pp. 94-114
Further links
Persianate manuscripts of the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow
