Safavid Persia

Schiitische Polemik gegen das Christentum im safawidischen Iran des 11./17. Jahrhunderts

by Dennis Halft OP

“Schiitische Polemik gegen das Christentum im safawidischen Iran des 11./17. Jahrhunderts. Sayyid Aḥmad ʿAlawīs Lawāmiʿ-i rabbānī dar radd-i šubha-yi naṣrānī”, in Adang, Camilla / Sabine Schmidtke (eds.), Contacts and Controversies between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Pre-Modern Iran (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 21), Würzburg 2010,
273-334.

Mir Damad and God's Creative Agency

by Sajjad Rizvi

Batıda Safevi Çalışmalarının Geldiği Aşama ve Son On Yıla Dair Bir Bibliyografya Denemesi

by Özer Küpeli

Tarih Okulu, VIII, (Eylül-Aralık 2010), s. 51-61.

Evliya Çelebi'nin İlk İran Seyahati Güzergahı ve Kalelere İlişkin Bilgiler (Route of the First Iran Journey of Evliya Çelebi and Information about Castles)

by Özer Küpeli

Türk Dünyası İncelemeleri Dergisi, XI / 2, (Kış 2011), s. 69-97.

A Civilidade na Pérsia aos olhos dos Portugueses de Quinhentos

by Roger Lee Jesus

Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura, 10, v. I, 2010, pp. 169-194.

Pretende-se, neste estudo, recolher os vestígios de “civilidade” (conforme a caracterizou Norbert Elias na sua obra O... more Pretende-se, neste estudo, recolher os vestígios de “civilidade” (conforme a caracterizou Norbert Elias na sua obra O processo civilizacional) na Pérsia do século XVI. Partindo dos relatos das embaixadas portugueses às terras do Xeque Ismael, observaram-se vários costumes e ritos, diferentes e novos aos olhos dos portugueses. A Expansão Portuguesa possibilitou o contacto com novas sociedades e novas culturas, abrindo novos horizontes para o processo civilizacional europeu. Este estudo pretende ser, em última análise, uma reflexão, através das fontes, acerca da visão portuguesa do Oriente.
This study envisages to collect the signs of “civility” (as Norbert Elias called it) in 16th century Persia. Based on the reports of the Portuguese missions to the land of Sheik Ismael, several customs and rituals – different and new in the Portuguese eyes – were observed. The Portuguese Expansion fostered the contact with new societies and cultures, hereby opening up the European civilisational process to new horizons. This study aims ultimately at providing – through its sources - a reflection of Portuguese views on the East

The ‘Amili-Phenomenon and ‘Amili-ness

by Aun Hasan Ali

unpublished

This paper is comprised of two parts. In the first part I examine the ‘Amili-phenomenon, a term that I use throughout... more This paper is comprised of two parts. In the first part I examine the ‘Amili-phenomenon, a term that I use throughout this paper to mean the historical configurations in which a network of scholars functioned to shape the Safavid Empire, in addition to the network itself and its modes of affiliation. The second part of this paper examines the role that an 11th/17th century text titled Amal al-amil fi ‘ulama Jabal ‘Amil by Muhammad b. al-Hasan al-Hurr al-‘Amili (d. 1104/1692) played in constructing ‘Amili-ness as a quality and an agency. I discuss the ‘Amili-phenomenon at length in order to forestall the formation of the perception that, because ‘Amili-ness was constructed, its ontological status is diminished. My point in this paper is exactly the opposite: I will argue that there exists a dialectical relationship between the Amili-phenomenon and Amili-ness, that is, between material bases and abstract ideas as they are embodied in texts, the development of which is central to larger historiographical questions.

Review of Sajjad H. Rizvi, Mullā Ṣadrā and metaphysics: the modulation of being (London: Routledge, 2009) in American Journal of Islamic Social Science 28, no. 1 (2011): 126-129.

by Aun Hasan Ali