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Title New perspectives on Safavid Iran : empire and society / edited by Colin P. Mitchell.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 225 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Iranian studies ; 8
Iranian studies (London, England) ; 8.
Summary Based around the three key themese - historiography, politics and economy, art and architecture - this collection examines the latest research on Safavid Iran. The book, dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, will supplement and re-interpret the existing literature on the subject.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The publications of Roger M. Savory, 1960-2007 / Eleazar Birnbaum -- The blinding pledge (mochalga) : a Chinggisid practice in Safavid Iran / Maria Subtelny -- The form, appearance, and decoration in the letters of the Safavid kings / Iraj Afshar -- Am I my brother's keeper? : negotiating corporate sovereignty and divine absolutism in 16th-century Turco-Iranian politics / Colin P. Mitchell -- Complex goals of the Ottomans, Persians and Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639 / Max Kortepeter -- Cultural currents in the Turco-Persian world of Safavid and post-Safavid times / John Perry -- From the battlefield to the harem : did women's seclusion increase from early to late Safavid times? / Rudi Matthee -- A Safavid bottle with matchlock hunt in the Royal Ontario Museum / Lisa Golombek -- Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah / Ali Asghar Bakhtiar -- The illustration of history in Safavid manuscript painting / Charles Melville -- Coordinates in time and space : architectural chronograms in Safavid Iran / Paul Losensky.
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Subject Iran -- History -- Ṛafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
Chronological Term 1501-1736
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Mitchell, Colin Paul.
Other Form: Print version: New perspectives on Safavid Iran. Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, ©2011 9780415774628 (DLC) 2010032352 (OCoLC)653483677
ISBN 9780203854631 (e-book)
0203854632 (e-book)
9780415774628 (hardback)
0415774624 (hardback)