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

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Superior document:Iranian studies ; 8
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Iranian studies (London, England) ; 8.
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Physical Description:xxv, 225 p. :; ill.
Notes:Dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, this book brings together a collection of studies on the Safavid state of Iran (1501-1722) from the perspectives of political, social, literary, and artistic history.
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Table of 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.