Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires : The Idea of Iran Vol. 10 (Paperback)

Editor's Introduction Chapter 1: The body politic and the rise of the Safavids - Ali Anooshahr, University of California, Davis, USA Chapter 2: The Qazvin period and the idea of the Safavids - Gregory Aldous, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, USA Chapter 3: Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire - Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada Chapter 4: The Idea of Iran in the Safavid period. Dynastic pre-eminence and urban pride - Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, USA Chapter 5: Safavid town-planning in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries: From Farahabad (Mazandaran) to Farahabad (Isfahan) - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK Chapter 6: Commercial relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe - Willem Floor, Independent scholar Chapter 7: From absolute prince to despot: the political representations of Safavid Iran in seventeenth-century France - Aurelie Salesse-Chabrier, Universite de Lyon, France Chapter 8: 'The world is an oyster and Iran, the pearl'. Representing Iran in Safavid Persian travel literature - Maryam Ala Amjadi, independent scholar Chapter 9: Local and transregional places in the works of Safavid men of letters - Sunil Sharma, Boston University, USA Chapter 10: Shi'i rulers, Safavid alliance and the religio-political landscape of the Deccan - Roy S. Fischel, London SOAS Chapter 11: The Safavids and the Ozbeks - Florian Schwarz, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Chapter 12: Particularities of the Safavid policy towards Eastern Georgia - George Sanikidze, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Chapter 13: 'O Mohebbi! You have lit your lamp with Khosrow's burning passion'. Persian poetry as perceived by sixteenth-century Ottoman authors - Benedek Peri, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Chapter 14: Popular religiosity and vernacular Turkic: A Qizilbash catechism from Safavid Iran - Frenec Csirkes, Sabanci University, Turkey Chapter 15: Safavids and Shi'ism in the age of Sectarianism - Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, UK Chapter 16: Practicing philosophy: Imagining Iran in the Safavid period - Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter, UK Chapter 17: Universal harmony (sulh-i kull) and political theology in Safavid Iran - Daniel J. Sheffield, Princeton University, USA Chapter 18: Flora in Safavid paintings from Shah Tahmasp's Shahnama - Sheila R Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA Chapter 19: From Khazana to audience. On the making of new art in the House of Shah Soleyman - Negar Habibi, Geneva