Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period (Islamic History and Civilization)

✍ Scribed by Andrew J. Newman (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 448
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization 46
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the emphasis of its predecessors on understanding and appreciating the legacy of the Safavid period by means of exchanges between both established and 'newer' scholars drawn from a variety of fields to facilitate an exchange of ideas, information, and methodologies across a broad range of academic disciplines between scholars from diverse disciplines and research backgrounds with a common interest in the history and culture of this period of Iran's history.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
PART ONE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 27
Hātifī's Tīmurnāma and Qāsimī's Shāhnāmeh-yi Ismāīl: Considerations towards a Double Critical Edition......Page 29
The Timurid Historiographical Legacy: A Comparative Study of Persianate Historical Writing......Page 45
Illustrated Persian Ajāib al-makhlūqāt manuscripts and their Function in Early Modern Times......Page 59
PART TWO SOURCES ON SAFAVID SOCIETY AND CULTURE......Page 75
Maktūb and Majmūa: Essential Sources for Safavid Research......Page 77
New Light on the Reign of Shah Abbās: Volume III of the Afdāl al-Tavārīkh......Page 89
Safavi Iran as Seen Through Venetian Eyes......Page 123
PART THREE CULTURE AND PATRONAGE IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD......Page 149
The Ardabīl Carpets in Context......Page 151
Shah Abbās and the Transfer of the Safavid Capital from Qazvin to Isfahan......Page 171
The Sarcophagus of Shah Ismāīl at Ardabīl......Page 191
PART FOUR ART AND IDENTITIES......Page 217
Muhammad Qāsim and the Isfahan School of Painting......Page 219
Another Career for Mīrzā Alī?......Page 239
Epic Images Revisited: An Ilkhanid Legacy in Early Safavid Painting......Page 263
PART FIVE CULTURE, ECONOMY AND POLITICS IN PERIPHERIES AND CENTRES......Page 275
The Sixteenth Century School of Bukhara Painting and the Arts of the Book......Page 277
The Safavid Mint of Huwayza: The Numismatic Evidence......Page 291
PART SIX THE SPIRITUAL REALM: MOVEMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, MEDICINE AND MONEY......Page 319
After the Messiah: The Nūrbakhshiyya in Late Timurid and Early Safavid Times......Page 321
Popular Literature Under the Safavids......Page 341
“Noqtaviyya” à l'époque Safavides......Page 367
The Immigrant Manuscripts: A Study of the Migration of Shīī Works From Arab Regions to Iran in the Early Safavid Era......Page 377
Bāqir al-Majlisī and Islamicate Medicine: Safavid Medical Theory and Practice Re-examined......Page 397
Safavid Administration of Avqāf: Structure, Changes and Functions, 1077—1135/1666—1722......Page 423
A......Page 435
C......Page 436
G......Page 437
I......Page 438
K......Page 439
M......Page 440
P......Page 442
S......Page 443
T......Page 444
Z......Page 445