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1 online resource (448 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401711
Content:
This work covers papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in 1998. It should be of use to scholars of Iranian history and culture as well as students of early modern Middle Eastern history and culture.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- PART ONE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Hātifī's Tīmurnāma and Qāsimī's Shāhnāmeh-yi Ismāīl: Considerations towards a Double Critical Edition -- The Timurid Historiographical Legacy: A Comparative Study of Persianate Historical Writing -- Illustrated Persian Ajāib al-makhlūqāt manuscripts and their Function in Early Modern Times -- PART TWO SOURCES ON SAFAVID SOCIETY AND CULTURE -- Maktūb and Majmūa: Essential Sources for Safavid Research -- New Light on the Reign of Shah Abbās: Volume III of the Afdāl al-Tavārīkh -- Safavi Iran as Seen Through Venetian Eyes -- PART THREE CULTURE AND PATRONAGE IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD -- The Ardabīl Carpets in Context -- Shah Abbās and the Transfer of the Safavid Capital from Qazvin to Isfahan -- The Sarcophagus of Shah Ismāīl at Ardabīl -- PART FOUR ART AND IDENTITIES -- Muhammad Qāsim and the Isfahan School of Painting -- Another Career for Mīrzā Alī? -- Epic Images Revisited: An Ilkhanid Legacy in Early Safavid Painting -- PART FIVE CULTURE, ECONOMY AND POLITICS IN PERIPHERIES AND CENTRES -- The Sixteenth Century School of Bukhara Painting and the Arts of the Book -- The Safavid Mint of Huwayza: The Numismatic Evidence -- PART SIX THE SPIRITUAL REALM: MOVEMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICINE AND MONEY -- After the Messiah: The Nūrbakhshiyya in Late Timurid and Early Safavid Times -- Popular Literature Under the Safavids -- "Noqtaviyya" à l'époque Safavides -- The Immigrant Manuscripts: A Study of the Migration of Shīī Works From Arab Regions to Iran in the Early Safavid Era -- Bāqir al-Majlisī and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined -- Safavid Administration of Avqāf: Structure, Changes and Functions, 1077-1135/1666-1722 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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ISBN 9789004127746
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004127746
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Print version Society and culture in the early modern Middle East : Studies on Iran in the Safavid period
Language:
English
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