ISBN |
9781848857681 (hardcover : 2 volumes) |
Title |
A chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia : the Safavids and the papal mission of the 17th and 18th centuries / edited and translated by H. Chick ; introduction by Rudi Matthee |
Publisher |
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012 |
Physical desc. |
2 volumes (xxxiv, 1376 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates) ; illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Note |
Originally published: London : Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd., 1939. |
Paginated continuously. |
CB illustrations: between pages 404 and 405: [Per 298.7]. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction by Rudi Matthee -- Part 1: Introductory historical review up to 1585 -- Reign of Shah Abbas I -- Reign of Shah Safi -- Reign of Shah Abbas II -- Reign of Shah Sulaiman -- Reigns of Shah Sultan Husain: and of the Afghans, Shah Mahmud and Shah Ashraf -- Reigns of Shah Tahmasp II (Safawi), Abbas III (Safawi), and Nadir Shah (Afshar) -- The interregnum as far as 1780 -- Part 2: Government of the mission to Persia and the Indies -- Financing of the mission in Persia, etc. -- Part 3: Biographical notices of the Carmelite religious mentioned as having been in Persia between 1600-1775 -- Part 4: Sites, construction, vicissitudes and duration of each separate establishment of the discalced Carmelites in their missionary province, 'Persian and the Indies' -- (A) In Persia proper: a) missions integrally complete with permanent residence, priest-religious, and church; b) semi-missions, i.e. without permanent residence, church, priest-religious, or not belonging to, or administered for the Order; c) proposed mission, never effective -- (B) In Mesopotamia -- (C) In western India -- (D) Notes on the residence at Baghdad -- (E) Notes on Carmelite and other missionary enterprise in the rest of Mesopotamia -- Appendices: (A) Latin briefs (of most of which translation is given in the text): a) from the popes to the shahs of Persia; b) from the popes to other personages, and to Carmelite missionaries; c) from Charles II of England to Shah Sulaiman -- (B) Persian letters from shahs of Persia to the popes: typed transliterations of the photographed originals (translations in the text) -- (C) Note on the Shariman family of Julfa, Venice and Leghorn, leading Armenian Catholics of the original community in Julfa. |
Corporate name |
Carmelites -- Iran -- History |
Catholic Church -- Foreign relations -- Iran |
Catholic Church -- Missions -- Iran -- History -- Sources |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 298.7 |
Popes -- Correspondence |
Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries -- Sources |
Iran -- Kings and rulers -- Correspondence |
Added name(s) |
Chick, H. (Herbert) 1882-1951 |
Matthee, Rudolph P. 1953- |