Iran and the World in the Safavid Age

Voorkant
Bloomsbury Academic, 15 sep 2012 - 506 pagina's
"Introduction " THE SAFAVID EMPIRE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD *The Safavid Empire and the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Political and Strategic Balance of Power within the World System " The Safavid Economy as Part of the World Economy " DIPLOMACY AND WAR " The Political Relations of Shah Esma'il I with the Mamluk Government (1501-1516/907-922) " From Rhetoric of War to Realities of Peace: The Evolution of Ottoman-Iranian Diplomacy through the Safavid Era " The Battle of Sufiyan, 1605: A Symptom of Ottoman Military Decline? " Imperial Borderlands: Safavid Renegades and Ottoman Rebels " An Infernal Triangle: The Contest between Mughals, Safavids and Portuguese, 1590-1605 " The Shaybanid Uzbeks, Moghuls and Safavids in Eastern Iran " Safavid Persia and Its Diplomatic Relations with Venice " The Embassy of Don García de Silva y Figueroa to Shah 'Abbas I " The Holy See, the Hispanic Monarchy and Persia in the Sixteenth Century: Some Aspects of the Involvement of the Society of Jesus " COMMERCIAL CONNECTIONS " Arduous Travelling: The Qandahar-Isfahan Highway in the Seventeenth Century " Trade between the Ottomans and Safavids: The Acem Tüccari and Others " Sweden, Russia and the Safavid Empire: A Mercantile Perspective " The Armenian Colony in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Armenian Merchants from Julfa before and after the Fall of the Safavid Empire " Sarhad's Account-Book as a Source for Studying the Commercial Activities of New Julfa Merchants in the Eighteenth Century " CROSS-CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS AND EXCHANGE " Mapping the Regnum Sophorum: Adam Olearius's Representation of the Safavid Empire (1647) " The French Presence in Safavid Persia: A Preliminary Study " The Presence of Ancient Secular and Religious Texts in Pietro della Valle's (1586-1652) Unpublished and Printed Writings " The Image of the Safavids in English and French Literature (1500-1800) 365 " Farang, Farangi and Farangestan: Safavid Historiography and the West (907-1148/1501-1736) " The Augustinians in Hormuz (1573-1622) " European Catholic Missionary Propaganda among the Armenian Population of Safavid Iran " The Safavid Presence in the Indian Ocean: A Reappraisal of the Ship of Solayman, a Seventeenth-Century Travel Account to Siam " The Safavid Potter at the Crossroad of Styles " European Religious Iconography in Safavid Iran: Decoration and Patronage of Meydani Bet'ghehem (Bethlehem of the Maydan) " Borrowed Terminology and Shared Techniques in New Julfa Armenian Commercial Documents " THE CAUCASUS: THE INTERNAL FRONTIER? " On the History of the Political Relations of Safavid Iran and Georgia: King Luarsab II and His Captivity in Iran " Exploitation of the Frontier: The Caucasus Policy of Shah 'Abbas I " 31 Iranian-Georgian Relations during the Reign of Rostom (1632-58) " Index.

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