New Perspectives on Safavid Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Empire and Society
Redaktion: Mitchell, Colin P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based around the three key themes - historiography, politics and economy, art and architecture - this collection examines the latest research on Safavid Iran. The book, dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, will supplement and re-interpret the existing literature on the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136991936
• Artikelnr.: 38279815

Autorenporträt

Colin P. Mitchell teaches and researches medieval and early modern Islamic history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He is primarily a researcher of the Safavid dynasty of Iran (1501-1722), but has also researched and published material dealing with Euro-Islamic contacts and relations in the early modern period.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bibliography of Roger Savory Eleazar Birnbaum 2. Introduction Colin P.
Mitchell Part 1: Safavid Courtly Narrative and Politico-Cultural Practice
3. The Blinding Pledge (mochalga): A Chinggisid Practice in Safavid Iran
Maria Subtelny 4. The Form, Appearance, and Decoration in the Letters of
the Safavid Kings Iraj Afshar 5. Am I My Brother's Keeper? Negotiating
Corporate Sovereignty and Divine Absolutism in 16th-century Turco-Iranian
Politics Colin P. Mitchell 6. Complex Goals of the Ottomans, Persians and
Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639 Max Kortepeter 7. Cultural Currents
in the Turco-Persian World of Safavid and Post-Safavid Times John Perry
8. From the Battlefield to the Harem: Did Women's Seclusion Increase from
Early to Late Safavid Times? Rudi Matthee Part 2: Safavid Aesthetics 9. A
Safavid Bottle with Matchlock Hunt in the Royal Ontario Museum Lisa
Golombek 10. Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah Ali Asghar Bakhtiar 11. The
Illustration of History in Safavid Manuscript Painting Charles Melville