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THE SAFAVID WORLD
The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501–1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources. In addition to political history and religious life, the chapters in this volume cover economic conditions, commercial links and activities, social relations, and artistic expressions.
They do so in ways that stretch both the temporal and geographical perimeters of the subject, and contributors also examine Safavid Iran with an eye to both its Mongol and Timurid antecedents and its long afterlife following the fall of the dynasty. Unlike traditional scholarship which tended to view the country as unique, sui generis, and barely affected by the outside world, The Safavid World situates Iran in a wider, regional or global context. Examining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of the Safavid world and the history and culture of Iran and the Middle East.
Rudi Matthee is the John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Delaware. He works on the political and socioeconomic history of early modern Iran. He is the author of four prize-winning scholarly books and the co-editor of another five volumes.
CONTRIBUTORS
Rula Jurdi Abisaab (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Islamic History, at McGill University, with a focus on Safavid Iran and Twelver Shi‘ism. Her scholarship deals with Twelver Shi‘a doctrinal, legal, and juristic developments during the late medieval period, and their historical contexts. Her works also cover the relationship between Islam and postcolonial Marxist Islamic thought in Lebanon and Iraq. Her writings on the postcolonial Arabic novel complement her growing literary output. Abisaab authored Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire, 1501–1736, and numerous articles, chapters, and encyclopedic entries on Safavid intellectual and sociopolitical history, as well as Twelver Shi‘a law and juristic thought. She also co-authored, with Malek Abisaab, The Shi‘ites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah’s Islamists.
Nozhat Ahmadi (Ph.D., Al-Zahra University) is Associate Professor in History Department of University of Isfahan. She works on Safavid period, especially on social history, vaqf, and women history. She is the author of Ro’yā va siyāsat dar ‘asr-e Safavi, Vaqf va gostaresh-e omur-e darmāni (2009), and Dar bāb-e owqāf-e Safavi (2011). She is also the editor of Zan dar tārikh-e Eslām (2013), a collection of articles about women in the Islamic world from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, and most recently, of Delgoshā, ma‘ruf beh Safina-ye Fetrat, a manuscript from the Safavid period authored by Vis Bik (2019).
Alexander V. Akopyan (Ph.D.) is a member of the Department of Oriental Written Sources of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He works on epigraphy, numismatics, and the socioeconomic history of Iran, Armenia, and the Caucasus. He was co-editor of the book Πολύτροπος. A Collection of Articles in Memory of Dr. Arkady A. Molchanov (2014), and serves as co-editor of the annual Numismatic Readings (State Historical Museum) and The Earliest States of Eastern Europe (Institute of World History, RAS). He is the author of over 100 articles devoted to general numismatics and various aspects of regional numismatics.
Ata Anzali (Ph.D., Rice University) is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College. His research focuses on the intersection of Sufism and Shi‘ism in early modern and modern Iran, but he is also interested more broadly in the comparative study of religions. He is the author of ‘Mysticism’ in Iran: The Safavid Roots of a Modern Concept and the co-author of several other books, including Opposition to Philosophy in Safavid Iran and Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms (2017).
Sussan Babaie (Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) is Professor of Islamic and Iranian Arts at The Courtauld, University of London. Her research on early modern Iran and the Persianate sphere includes topics on architecture and urbanism, on transcultural conditions of artistic production, and on the links between urbanity and sensory experiences of art and architecture. She is the author of the prize-winning Isfahan and Its Palaces and co-author and editor of several books including Slaves of the Shah, Persian Kingship and Architecture, and The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World. She was the President of the Historians of Islamic Art Association from 2017 to 2019.
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (Ph.D., Ohio State University) is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at New York University. Her work focuses on Safavid and early modern Ottoman empires with particular emphasis on the developments of sectarian identities at both the state and communal/individual levels. She is the author of several journal articles and book chapters examining the formation of Ottoman and Safavid Shi‘a communities, shedding light on the oftenneglected sociopolitical and fiscal aspects of religious policies and decisions, and questioning the applicability of the notions of confessionalization and social disciplining to Ottoman and Safavid state formations between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is currently the director of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at New York University (OTS-NYU).
Elio Brancaforte (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies at Tulane University. He works on early modern European travel literature about the Middle East, the Caucasus, and especially Safavid Iran. His scholarly interests include translation, cultural exchange, theories of representation, the history of the book, German baroque drama, and the history of cartography. The relationship between word and image is an underlying theme in much of his research. Current projects include a book on Engelbert Kaempfer in Azerbaijan and a collaborative ACLS-funded project on copied images in early modern travel accounts.
Sonja Brentjes (Ph.D., Technical University Dresden; Habilitation University of Leipzig) is a retired historian of science in Islamicate societies and Christian Europe; she is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Her research includes the history of the mathematical sciences, mapmaking, institutions, cross-cultural exchange of knowledge, and the involvement of the arts in the sciences. Among her recent publications are Teaching and Learning the Sciences in Islamicate Societies, 800–1700 (2018), and S. Brentjes, T. Edis, and L. Richter-Bernburg, 1001 Distortions: How (Not) to Narrate the History of Science, Medicine and Technology in Non-Western Cultures (2016).
Willem Floor (Ph.D., Leiden University) is an independent scholar. He has authored 40 books on the socioeconomic and political history of Iran and co-translated ten works from Latin, Persian, and Azeri Turkish. In 2017, he was awarded the Farabi Prize for his contribution to Iranian studies. Lisa Golombek (Ph.D., University of Michigan) was Curator of Islamic Art at the Royal Ontario Museum (1967–2005) and Professor at the University of Toronto. Her five books and over 70 articles cover a wide range of topics, including epigraphy, textiles, and Persian gardens. Her major publications, resulting from fieldwork, focus on later Persian architecture and ceramics: The Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan (with D. Wilber, 1988), and most recently, Persian Pottery in the First Global Age: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (with R. B. Mason and others). She is currently researching the figural imagery on a Safavid tile arcade (c. 1685).
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She works on late medieval and early modern Anatolian history, Ottoman–Safavid borderlands, Sufism, nonconformist religious movements, Alevi/Bektashi communities, and women and gender in Islamic(ate) societies. She is the author of the prize-winning book The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community (2019/2020). She has published articles in Turcica, International Journal of Turkish Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, National Identities, Kurdish Studies, and BELLETEN.
Hani Khafipour (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a historian of medieval and early modern Iran. He specializes in the political and religious culture of greater Iran with an emphasis on Sufism, Safavid political theology, and theories of power. He is Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies and Culture at the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the editor of the book The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities (2019). He is the former History of Iran Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Islam (EI3) and serves on the Board of Trustees at the American Institute of Iranian Studies.
Paul Losensky (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on Persian literary historiography, biographical writing, translation studies, and early modern Persian literature in its global context. His publications include Welcoming Fighani: Individuality in the Safavid-Mughal Ghazal (1998), Farid ad-Din ‘Attar’s Memorial of God’s Friends: Lives and Sayings of Sufis (2009), and In the Bazaar of Love: Selected Poems of Amir Khusrau (2013, with Sunil Sharma). He has authored numerous articles on Persian literature and contributed frequently to Encyclopaedia Iranica and Encyclopedia of Islam. He is a former fellow of the National Humanities Center and currently serves as chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
Hirotake Maeda (Ph.D., University of Tokyo) is Professor of History at Tokyo Metropolitan University. Using Persian and Georgian sources; he works on — Contributors — xxi the origins of military ‘slaves’ of Safavid imperial household and their role in the Iranian politics and society. His main publications are ‘On the ethno-social background of the four gholām families from Georgia in Safavid Iran’, Studia Iranica, 2003 (translated into Georgian and published in Tbilisi in 2008, and also into Persian and published in Tehran in 2018); ‘Exploitation of the frontier, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (2012); and ‘Lives of Enikolopians’, The Persianate World (2019).
Rudi Matthee (Ph.D., UCLA) is the John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Delaware. He works on the political and socioeconomic history of early modern Iran and its connections with the wider world. He is the author of four prize-winning scholarly books, most recently The Monetary History of Iran (2013, co-authored), and the co-editor of another five books. He is the former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (2002–05 and 2008–11) and serves as co-editor of Der Islam and as a consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Iranica. He is currently the President of the Persian Heritage Foundation.
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He specializes in early modern Islamicate intellectual, cultural, and political history, with a focus on the theory and practice of the occult sciences in Iran and the Persianate world. Colin P. Mitchell (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). He focuses on the administrative, literary, and cultural history of early modern Iran and the surrounding Persianate world (Central Asia, India). He is the author of The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric (2009) and editor of a festschrift for Roger Savory entitled New Perspectives on Safavid Iran: Empire and Society (2011). A. Azfar Moin (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Texas at Austin. He studies the premodern Islamic world from comparative perspectives with a particular focus on concepts and practices of sovereignty. His award-winning first book The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam examined Mughal India in connection and comparison with Safavid Iran. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
Vera B. Moreen (Ph.D., Harvard University) has taught Islam and Judaism at Swarthmore, Haverford, and Franklin & Marshall Colleges. She specializes in the history, literature, and art of Iranian Jews between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries based on Judeo-Persian manuscripts. Her most recent book is The Bible as a Judeo-Persian Epic: An Illustrated Manuscript of ʻImrānī’s FatḥNāma (Jerusalem, 2016). She is currently a Section Editor of The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Sholeh Quinn (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles (2000) and Shah Abbas: the King Who Refashioned Iran (2015); — Contributors — xxii and co-editor of History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East: Studies in Honor of John E. Woods (2006). Her latest book, entitled Writing across Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, was published in 2021.
Giorgio Rota (Ph.D., Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples) is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna). His research deals mainly with the political and social history of Safavid Iran (especially in the seventeenth century), with a particular focus on the military aspects of the period and the question of the diplomatic relations between Iran and the European states. He is the author of Under Two Lions. On the Knowledge of Persia in the Republic of Venice (ca. 1450–1797) (Vienna, 2009) and of numerous articles. He also edited and translated into Italian the so-called ‘Account of the Life and Times of Rustam Khan’ (Ms. British Library Add 7,655).
Marianna Shreve Simpson (Ph.D., Harvard University) is an independent scholar of Islamic art history and a research associate at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania. She previously held administrative and curatorial positions at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution; and Walters Art Museum. She has served as president of the Historians of Islamic Art Association. Her research and publications focus primarily on the arts of the book in the Islamic world, in particular illustrated Persian manuscripts.
Tilmann Trausch (Ph.D., Universität Hamburg) is Acting Professor of Iranian Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He works on the narratives and semantics of Persianate historiographical writing between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is the author of two scholarly monographs on the historiography of the Safavid period, including the most recent Formen höfischer Historiographie im 16. Jahrhundert (2015), and the editor and co-editor respectively of three comparative volumes on phenomena of global history, including the most recent Norm, Normabweichung und Praxis des Herrschaftsübergangs in transkultureller Perspektive (2019, editor).
Ernest Tucker (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of History and Faculty Director of the Center for Regional Studies at the United States Naval Academy. His research focuses on the political and diplomatic history of early modern Iran and the Ottoman Empire. He has written numerous encyclopedic entries, journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly books, most notably Nadir Shah’s Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran (2006). He was a fellow of the American Institute of Iranian Studies in 2004, which allowed him to present a paper at the Iranology Foundation Conference in Tehran that year.
Akihiko Yamaguchi (Ph.D., École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Sophia University, Tokyo. He works on the history of Kurdistan from the early modern to the modern era. His main publications are ‘Shah Tahmasp’s Kurdish policy’, Studia Iranica (2012); ‘The Safavid legacy as viewed from the periphery: The formation of Iran and the political integration of — Contributors — xxiii a Kurdish emirate’, in N. Kondo (ed.), Mapping Safavid Iran, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2015; and ‘“Iranian Kurds (Akrād-e Īrān)” and the Safavid “forced” migration policy’, Journal of Asian and African Studies (2017).
Riza Yildirim (Ph.D., Bilkent University) holds a Ph.D. in history and is currently completing his second Ph.D. in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. His research focuses on the history and religiosity of QizilbashAlevi, Bektashi, and similar shari‘a-inattentive, Shi‘i-oriented Muslim traditions in the Middle East. He is the author of five books and numerous articles. His current dissertation examines the religious system of the Qezelbāsh, the politicomilitary elites of the Safavid Iran. His research combines Ottoman, Safavid, and Qezelbāsh-Alevi sources (both written and oral).
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