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Research paper thumbnail of Atlas historique du golfe Persique : (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

A collection and study of 104 maps representing the Persian Gulf from the 16th to 18th centuries.... more A collection and study of 104 maps representing the Persian Gulf from the 16th to 18th centuries. Chapters on Medieval cartography, Portuguese cartography, Dutch cartography, French cartography, English cartography, and German cartography.

Research paper thumbnail of The Emblematic Tradition in Calder�n�s El pr�ncipe constante

Research paper thumbnail of Between Word And Image : Representations Of Shi‘Ite Rituals In The Safavid Empire From Early Modern European Travel Accounts

Remapping Travel Narratives (1000-1700), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Canace

Research paper thumbnail of Exhibition catalog, part I, Houghton Library: "From rhubarb to rubies: European travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700)

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume 23.1-23.2

Research paper thumbnail of Between Word and Image

Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi‘ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts

Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Exhibition catalog, Part II, Harvard Map Collection: "The lands of the Sophi: Iran in early modern European maps (1550–1700)

Research paper thumbnail of Portrait of a traveler in Safavid Iran

Research paper thumbnail of Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West

Daphnis

This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s ... more This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s Gulistan (1258 ad) into European languages: André du Ryer’s French version (1634), the Latin translation of Georgius Gentius (1651) and the German editions of Friedrich Ochsenbach (1636) and Adam Olearius (1654). The Gulistan – which consists of short, moralistic tales, aphorisms, proverbs, and Sufic lore – helped introduce Persian thought to the early modern European public (and later influenced Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan as well as Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes).

Research paper thumbnail of Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West

Daphnis

This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s ... more This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s Gulistan (1258 ad) into European languages: André du Ryer’s French version (1634), the Latin translation of Georgius Gentius (1651) and the German editions of Friedrich Ochsenbach (1636) and Adam Olearius (1654). The Gulistan – which consists of short, moralistic tales, aphorisms, proverbs, and Sufic lore – helped introduce Persian thought to the early modern European public (and later influenced Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan as well as Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes).

Research paper thumbnail of From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700) The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550–1700)

Iranian Studies, 2008

The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with i... more The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with its variety. True, one must tolerate expense, discomfort, and danger, but the effort, if blessed by fortune, brings its reward. Idleness eats away at all virtue and is the worst ...

Research paper thumbnail of Canace (1542)

Renaissance and Reformation

Research paper thumbnail of The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Research paper thumbnail of The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Research paper thumbnail of The Emblematic Tradition in Calderón’s El príncipe constante

Research paper thumbnail of From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550-1700) The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550-1700)

Iranian Studies, 2008

The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with i... more The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with its variety. True, one must tolerate expense, discomfort, and danger, but the effort, if blessed by fortune, brings its reward. Idleness eats away at all virtue and is the worst ...

Research paper thumbnail of Atlas historique du golfe Persique : (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles)

A collection and study of 104 maps representing the Persian Gulf from the 16th to 18th centuries.... more A collection and study of 104 maps representing the Persian Gulf from the 16th to 18th centuries. Chapters on Medieval cartography, Portuguese cartography, Dutch cartography, French cartography, English cartography, and German cartography.

Research paper thumbnail of The Emblematic Tradition in Calder�n�s El pr�ncipe constante

Research paper thumbnail of Between Word And Image : Representations Of Shi‘Ite Rituals In The Safavid Empire From Early Modern European Travel Accounts

Remapping Travel Narratives (1000-1700), 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Canace

Research paper thumbnail of Exhibition catalog, part I, Houghton Library: "From rhubarb to rubies: European travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700)

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume 23.1-23.2

Research paper thumbnail of Between Word and Image

Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi‘ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts

Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Exhibition catalog, Part II, Harvard Map Collection: "The lands of the Sophi: Iran in early modern European maps (1550–1700)

Research paper thumbnail of Portrait of a traveler in Safavid Iran

Research paper thumbnail of Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West

Daphnis

This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s ... more This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s Gulistan (1258 ad) into European languages: André du Ryer’s French version (1634), the Latin translation of Georgius Gentius (1651) and the German editions of Friedrich Ochsenbach (1636) and Adam Olearius (1654). The Gulistan – which consists of short, moralistic tales, aphorisms, proverbs, and Sufic lore – helped introduce Persian thought to the early modern European public (and later influenced Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan as well as Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes).

Research paper thumbnail of Persian Words of Wisdom Travel to the West

Daphnis

This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s ... more This essay considers the seventeenth-century translations of the celebrated Persian poet Saʿdi’s Gulistan (1258 ad) into European languages: André du Ryer’s French version (1634), the Latin translation of Georgius Gentius (1651) and the German editions of Friedrich Ochsenbach (1636) and Adam Olearius (1654). The Gulistan – which consists of short, moralistic tales, aphorisms, proverbs, and Sufic lore – helped introduce Persian thought to the early modern European public (and later influenced Goethe’s West-östlicher Diwan as well as Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes).

Research paper thumbnail of From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550–1700) The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550–1700)

Iranian Studies, 2008

The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with i... more The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with its variety. True, one must tolerate expense, discomfort, and danger, but the effort, if blessed by fortune, brings its reward. Idleness eats away at all virtue and is the worst ...

Research paper thumbnail of Canace (1542)

Renaissance and Reformation

Research paper thumbnail of The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Research paper thumbnail of The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives

Research paper thumbnail of The Emblematic Tradition in Calderón’s El príncipe constante

Research paper thumbnail of From Rhubarb to Rubies: European Travels to Safavid Iran (1550-1700) The Lands of the Sophi: Iran in Early Modern European Maps (1550-1700)

Iranian Studies, 2008

The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with i... more The world is a great book, which, when perused attentively, proffers teaching and delights with its variety. True, one must tolerate expense, discomfort, and danger, but the effort, if blessed by fortune, brings its reward. Idleness eats away at all virtue and is the worst ...

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