Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires (eBook, ePUB)

The Idea of Iran Vol. 10
Redaktion: Melville, Charles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity.

In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age.

While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour.

With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755633807
• Artikelnr.: 60670577

Autorenporträt

Charles Melville is Professor Emeritus of Persian History at the University of Cambridge, UK, President of the British Institute of Persian Studies and Director of the Shahnama Project, at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on the history of Iran, including Every Inch a King, The Mongols' Middle Eastand Persian Historiography (I.B.Tauris).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Charles Melville 1. The Body Politic and the Rise of the Safavids - Ali Anooshahr
University of California
Davis
USA 2. The Qazvin Period and the Idea of the Safavids - Gregory Aldous
University of Pittsburgh
Greensburg
USA 3. Man of the Pen
Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire - Colin Mitchell
Dalhousie University
Canada 4. The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride - Rudi Matthee
University of Delaware
USA 5. Safavid Town Planning - Sussan Babaie
The Courtauld Institute of Art
UK 6. From Absolute Prince to Despot: The Political Representations of Safavid Iran in Seventeenth-Century France - Aurélie Salesse-Chabrier
Université de Lyon
France 7. The Idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as 'The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era' - Andrew J. Newman
University of Edinburgh
UK 8. Practising Philosophy
Imagining Iran in the Safavid Period- Sajjad Rizvi
University of Exeter
UK 9. Popular Religiosity and Vernacular Turkic: A Qezelbash Catechism from Safavid Iran - Ferenc Csirkés
Sabanci University
Turkey 10. 'O Muhibbi! You've Lit Your Lamp with Khosrow's Burning Passion': Persian Poetry as Perceived by Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Authors - Benedek Péri
Eötvös Loránd University
Hungary 11. Commercial Relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe Willem Floor
Independent scholar 12. 'The World is an Oyster and Iran
the Pearl': Representations of Iran in Safavid Persian Travel Literature - Maryam Ala Amjadi
Independent scholar 13. Local and Transregional Places in the Works of Safavid Men of Letters - Sunil Sharma
Boston University
USA 14. Shi'i Rulers
Safavid Alliance and the Religio-Political Landscape of the Deccan - Roy S. Fischel 15. Safavids and Ozbeks - Florian Schwarz
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austria 16. The Evolution of the Safavid Policy towards Eastern Georgia - George Sanikidze
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University
Tbilisi
Georgia 17. Flora in Safavid Paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama and Later Works - Sheila R. Canby
Metropolitan Museum of Art
USA 18. The Making of New Art: From the Khazana to its Audience at the Court of Shah Soleyman - Negar Habibi
Geneva