The publications of Roger M. Savory, 1960-2007 / Eleazar Birnbaum -- The blinding pledge (mochalga) : a Chinggisid practice in Safavid Iran / Maria Subtelny -- The form, appearance, and decoration in the letters of the Safavid kings / Iraj Afshar -- Am I my brother's keeper? : negotiating corporate sovereignty and divine absolutism in 16th-century Turco-Iranian politics / Colin P. Mitchell -- Complex goals of the Ottomans, Persians and Muscovites in the Caucasus, 1578-1639 / Max Kortepeter -- Cultural currents in the Turco-Persian world of Safavid and post-Safavid times / John Perry -- From the battlefield to the harem : did women's seclusion increase from early to late Safavid times? / Rudi Matthee -- A Safavid bottle with matchlock hunt in the Royal Ontario Museum / Lisa Golombek -- Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah / Ali Asghar Bakhtiar -- The illustration of history in Safavid manuscript painting / Charles Melville -- Coordinates in time and space : architectural chronograms in Safavid Iran / Paul Losensky.
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Based around the three key themese - historiography, politics and economy, art and architecture - this collection examines the latest research on Safavid Iran. The book, dedicated to the renowned Safavid historian Roger Savory, will supplement and re-interpret the existing literature on the subject.