
CallFront project member
Post-doctoral research fellow
Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Contact / viola.allegranzi@oeaw.ac.at
Viola Allegranzi is postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020-). In 2017, she received a joint Ph.D. from the Universities Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and “L’Orientale” di Napoli, with a dissertation devoted to the Persian inscriptions from Ghazni (Afghanistan) and the cultural history of the Ghaznavid period (11th-12th century). Her research focuses on monumental epigraphy, inscribed objects, and architectural decoration from the Persianate zone (8th to 14th century). She has a special interest in the intersection between archaeological and textual sources, in particular medieval historiography, and Persian literature. She is the author of the monograph Aux sources de la poésie ghaznavide. Les inscriptions persanes de Ghazni (Paris, 2019) and co-editor of the volume Texts and Contexts. Ongoing Research on the Eastern Iranian World (Roma, 2020).
Viola Allegranzi is part of the research team “Indian subcontinent” of the project Calligraphies at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World – CallFront. Her investigations into Ghaznavid and Ghurid monumental inscriptions on marble and stucco contribute to the study of the early development of curvilinear script in the Eastern Islamic regions.