KANDA, Yui

Assistant Professor

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi,
Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan

Email: kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp

Personal Homepage: https://tufs.academia.edu/YuiKanda

Research interests: Material cultures in the Muslim World; Islamic art and architecture; ceramics; manuscripts; metalwork; Persian literature; Arabic and Persian epigraphy; The arts of the Safavids; Twelver Shīʿism; Persian documents; Text transmission.

Recent Interests：

Her current projects explore: (1) the reception history of manuscripts and works of art gifted by Shāh ʿAbbās I to shrines in Ardabil, Mashhad, Qum, and Rayy; (2) the manuscript tradition of various versions of Kalilah wa Dimnah in the early modern Persianate world; (3) the architectural history of the mausoleum of Muḥammad b. Ḥanafiyya in Kharg Island; and (4) the comprehensive research on the medieval and early modern Islamic ceramics in the Japanese collection (eg., Fouquet collection). She is also a coordinator of the ILCAA Joint Research Project (AY2024–2026), “Adaptation and Reorientation of Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East (jrp000301).”

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