Dr Sarah Stewart
BA (ANU); PGCE, MA, PhD (London)
Overview
Department of the Study of Religions
Lecturer in Zoroastrianism
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre for Iranian Studies
Advisory Committee Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
- Name:
- Dr Sarah Stewart
- Email address:
- ss7@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)20 7898 4270
- Fax:
- +44 (0)20 7898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 331
- Office Hours:
- Thursdays 12-1pm
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Islam in Britain
- Muslim Britain: Perspectives and Realities
- Zoroastrianism in the Ancient and Modern Worlds
PhD Students supervised
- Alexandra Buhler, Historical analysis of the role which Zoroastrians played during the institutional revolution in Iran (1905-11).
- Elizabeth Munro,
- Nazneen Engineer, Intermarriage and Conversion in Zoroastrianism.
Expertise
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Available for
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
- Briefings
Regional Expertise
- South Asia
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- India
- Iran
Languages
Publications
Edited Books
Herzig, Edmund and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2012) Early Islamic Iran. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran Vol. 5)
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2009) The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran, Vol. 4)
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2008) The Sasanian Era. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran)
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2007) The Age of the Parthians. I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran)
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta and Stewart, Sarah, eds. (2005) The Birth of the Persian Empire. London: I.B. Tauris. (The Idea of Iran)
Book Chapters
Stewart, Sarah (2007) 'Parsi Prayer and Devotional Song in the Indian Diaspora.' In: Hinnells, J. R. and Williams, A., (eds.), Parsis in India and the Diaspora. Taylor and Francis, pp. 59-77.
Stewart, Sarah (2004) 'The Atas nu git: A Parsi Lay Ritual.' In: Stausberg, M., (ed.), Zoroastrian Rituals in Context. Brill, pp. 443-60.
Stewart, Sarah and Munshi, N. (2002) 'Observances of the Faithful.' In: Godrej, P. J. and Mistree, F. P., (eds.), A Zoroastrian Tapestry: Art, Religion & Culture. Mapin & Grantha, pp. 385-97.
Articles
Stewart, Sarah (2012) 'The Politics of Zoroastrian Philanthropy and the Case of Qasr-e Firuzeh.' Iranian Studies, 45 (1). pp. 59-80.
Stewart, Sarah (2007) 'Worship According to the Yasts.' IRAN. The Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies., 45 (2007). pp. 137-51.
