Safavid Persia in the age of empires. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Charles Melville.
• Editors: Melville, C. P (Charles Peter), 1951-
• Contents: Editor's Introduction Chapter 1: The body politic and the rise of the Safavids - Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis, USA Chapter 2: The Qazvin period and the idea of the Safavids - Gregory Aldous, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, USA Chapter 3: Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire - Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada Chapter 4: The Idea of Iran in the Safavid period. Dynastic pre-eminence and urban pride - Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, USA Chapter 5: Safavid town-planning in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries: From Farahabad (Mazandaran) to Farahabad (Isfahan) - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK Chapter 6: Commercial relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe - Willem Floor, Independent scholar Chapter 7: From absolute prince to despot: the political representations of Safavid Iran in seventeenth-century France - Aurelie Salesse-Chabrier, Université de Lyon, France Chapter 8: 'The world is an oyster and Iran, the pearl'. Representing Iran in Safavid Persian travel literature - Maryam Ala Amjadi, independent scholar Chapter 9: Local and transregional places in the works of Safavid men of letters - Sunil Sharma, Boston University, USA Chapter 10: Shi'i rulers, Safavid alliance and the religio-political landscape of the Deccan - Roy S. Fischel, London SOAS Chapter 11: The Safavids and the Ozbeks - Florian Schwarz, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Chapter 12: Particularities of the Safavid policy towards Eastern Georgia - George Sanikidze, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Chapter 13: 'O Mohebbi! You have lit your lamp with Khosrow's burning passion'. Persian poetry as perceived by sixteenth-century Ottoman authors - Benedek Péri, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Chapter 14: Popular religiosity and vernacular Turkic: A Qizilbash catechism from Safavid Iran - Frenec Csirkés, Sabanci University, Turkey Chapter 15: Safavids and Shi'ism in the age of Sectarianism – Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, UK Chapter 16: Practicing philosophy: Imagining Iran in the Safavid period - Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter, UK Chapter 17: Universal harmony (sulh-i kull) and political theology in Safavid Iran – Daniel J. Sheffield, Princeton University, USA Chapter 18: Flora in Safavid paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama - Sheila R Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA Chapter 19: From Khazana to audience. On the making of new art in the House of Shah Soleyman - Negar Habibi, Geneva.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 955.03; Middle Eastern history; Islamic studies; History -- Asia -- Central Asia; History -- Social History; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Iran -- History -- Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780755633807; 9780755633791
• Related ISBNs: 9780755633777; 9780755633784
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.