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Gifts in the age of empire : Ottoman-Safavid cultural exchange, 1500-1639 / Sinem Arcak Casale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Casale, Sinem Arcak, author.
- Series:
- Silk roads.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Silk roads
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houghton Shahnameh.
- Diplomatic gifts--Iran--History.
- Diplomatic gifts.
- Diplomatic gifts--Turkey--History.
- Gifts--Political aspects--Iran--History--16th century.
- Gifts.
- Gifts--Political aspects--Iran--History--17th century.
- Iran--Relations--Turkey.
- Iran.
- Turkey--Relations--Iran.
- Turkey.
- Iran--History--Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures - such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives - flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives.
- Contents:
- Scandal and decorum
- An exquisite Shahnama
- King of the world
- Little prince bearing gifts
- Diplomacy and transaction.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information supplied online (viewed on January 9, 2024).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-82355-5
- OCLC:
- 1380467407
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