Table of Contents

1. Bibliography of Roger Savory Eleazar Birnbaum 2. Introduction Colin P. Mitchell Part 1: Safavid Courtly Narrative and Politico-Cultural Practice 3. The Blinding Pledge (mochalga): A Chinggisid Practice in Safavid Iran Maria Subtelny 4. The Form, Appearance, and Decoration in the Letters of the Safavid Kings Iraj Afshar 5. Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Negotiating Corporate Sovereignty and Divine Absolutism in 16th-century Turco-Iranian Politics Colin P. Mitchell 6. Complex Goals of the Ottomans, Persians and Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639 Max Kortepeter 7. Cultural Currents in the Turco-Persian World of Safavid and Post-Safavid Times John Perry 8. From the Battlefield to the Harem: Did Women’s Seclusion Increase from Early to Late Safavid Times? Rudi Matthee Part 2: Safavid Aesthetics 9. A Safavid Bottle with Matchlock Hunt in the Royal Ontario Museum Lisa Golombek 10. Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah Ali Asghar Bakhtiar 11. The Illustration of History in Safavid Manuscript Painting Charles Melville

About the Author

Colin P. Mitchell teaches and researches medieval and early modern Islamic history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He is primarily a researcher of the Safavid dynasty of Iran (1501-1722), but has also researched and published material dealing with Euro-Islamic contacts and relations in the early modern period.

Reviews

"Undoubtedly, this Festschrift edited by Colin Mitchell and dedicated to Roger M. Savory makes a valuable and welcome contribution to the study of Safavid Iran... The book is aimed at a specialisted readership and clearly makes a significant contribution to Iranian studies."- Cleo Cantone, London, UK; Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies, Winter 2012 Vol. V No. 1