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Safavid Persia in the age of empires

Safavid Persia in the age of empires
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ISBN 0755633784 (softcover)
9780755633784 (softcover)
Title Safavid Persia in the age of empires / edited by Charles Melville
Publisher London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2021
Physical desc. xvii, 472 pages, 8 pages of plates ; illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Series The idea of Iran 10
Note 'Supported by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation'--t.p.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Charles Melville -- The body politic and the rise of the Safavids / Ali Anooshahr -- The Qazvin period and the idea of the Safavids / Gregory Aldous -- Man of the pen, pillar of the state: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid empire / Colin Mitchell -- The idea of Iran in the Safavid period: dynastic pre-eminence and urban pride / Rudi Mathee -- Safavid town planning / Sussan Babaie -- From absolute prince to despot: the political representations of Safavid Iran in seventeenth-century France / Aurélie Salesse-Chabrier -- The idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as 'The idea of Iran: the Safavid era' / Andrew J. Newman -- Practising philosophy, imagining Iran in the Safavid period / Sajjad Rizvi -- Popular religiosity and vernacular Turkic: a Qeselbash catechism from Safavid Iran / Ferenc Csirkés -- 'O Muhibbi! You've lit your lamp with Khosrow's burning passion': Persian poetry as perceived by sixteenth-century Ottoman authors / Benedek Péri -- Commercial relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe / Willem Floor -- 'The world is an oyster and Iran, the pearl': representations of Iran in Safavid Persian travel literature / Maryam Ala Amjadi -- Local and transregional places in the works of Safavid men of letters / Sunil Sharma -- Shi'i rulers, Safavid alliance and the religio-political landscape of the Deccan / Roy S. Fischel -- Safavids and Ozbeks / Florian Schwarz -- The evolution of the Safavid policy towards Eastern Georgia / George Sanikidze -- Flora in Safavid paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama and later works / Sheila R. Canby -- The making of new art: from the Khazana to its audience at the court of Shah Soleyman / Negar Habibi.
Subject Iran -- History -- Safavid dynasty, 1501-1736
Iran -- Politics and government -- 16th century
Iran -- Politics and government -- 17th century
Added name(s) Melville, C.P.
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