• Middle East
• Iran
• Islam
• Islamic Mysticism (Sufism)
• Persian Literature
• International Relations

University of Toronto, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Ph.D., 2009

Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Studies, MA, 2001

University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, BS, 1996

In 2014, Dr. Lingwood published Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran: New Perspectives on Jami's Salaman va Absal. The book, published by Brill, explores the intersection of Persian poetry, Perso-Islamic politics, and Islamic mysticism in late fifteenth-century Iran by focusing on the poet 'Abd al-Rahman Jami.

Chad Lingwood is professor in the History Department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, U.S. He is the author of Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran: New Perspectives on Jami's Salaman va Absal (Brill, 2014). His publications have appeared in Iranian Studies, Journal of Persianate Studies, International Journal of Persian Literature, and Middle Eastern Literatures. Dr. Lingwood�s areas of research interest are Iranian history, classical Persian literature, and Islamic mysticism (Sufism), with a focus on Persian poetry related to the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty. He teaches history and Area Studies courses at Grand Valley on Islamic civilization, the Middle East, and Iran.

https://www.gvsu.edu/history/chad-lingwood-65.htm