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گفتارهایی در تاریخ عصر صفوی, 2024
Festschrift in 3 vols. bringing together my articles in translation
حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات), 2023
حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات) رودی متی ترجم... more حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات)
رودی متی
ترجمه سمیه خانی‌پور
چاپ اول ۱۴۰۱، نشر تاریخ ایران
قطع رقعی، ۳۹۸صفحه، جلد شومیز
قیمت: ۲۶۰۰۰۰تومان
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translation of The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver
Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In man... more Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess―whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking’s many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to ‘hypocrisy’ or the temptations of ‘forbidden fruit’. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its ‘absence’ as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith―from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdoğan’s Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan―he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God―the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources in multiple languages, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.
فصلنامه فرهنگ بان, 2021
Persian trans. of "The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period"
The Safavid World, 2021
The mathematical sciences and medicine were the two scholarly domains outside the religious disci... more The mathematical sciences and medicine were the two scholarly domains outside the religious disciplines, which had a professional representation at the court and market place. The professional representative of the mathematical sciences was the astrologer. The highest-ranking representative of the medical field was – as in the case of astrology – the head physician at court, the hakim-bashi. Most extant Arabic and Persian texts on one or more of the mathematical sciences were written by madrasa teachers or copied by their students. Teaching the mathematical sciences at madrasas involved primarily arithmetic, algebra, geometry and astronomy. Safavid astrolabes are characterized by a number of shared features. They are usually fitted with a decorated throne. Their rete with the star pointers carries a uniquely elegant, mostly floral design. Medical works of the Safavid period provide some clues as to which books were considered relevant to the knowledge of well-educated doctors and as respectable sources for compiling different kinds of medical writings.
Persian translation of Russians in Iran (2018)
The Safavid World, 2021
Book Description The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex... more Book Description The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources. In addition to political history and religious life, the chapters in this volume cover economic conditions, commercial links and activities, social relations, and artistic expressions. They do so in ways that stretch both the temporal and geographical perimeters of the subject, and contributors also examine Safavid Iran with an eye to both its Mongol and Timurid antecedents and its long afterlife following the fall of the dynasty. Unlike traditional scholarship which tended to view the country as unique, sui generis, and barely affected by the outside world, The Safavid World situates Iran in a wider, regional or global context. Examining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of the Safavid world and the history and culture of Iran and the Middle East.
Rusha dar Iran, 2021
Persian translation of Russians in Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
Second, unauthorized Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iran... more Second, unauthorized Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-100 (2005)
Keshvar-e Portugal, Khalij-e Fars va Iran-e Safavi, 2020
Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011, edited with Jorge Flores ) translated into P... more Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011, edited with Jorge Flores ) translated into Persian: Keshvar-e Portugal, Khalij-e Fars va Iran-e Safavi, trans. Hamidreza Ziba’i (Tehran: Bonyad-e Iranshenasi, 2020).
Giovanni-Tommasso Minadoi: The War between the Turks and the Persians, 2019
Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History (2005)
Third Persian translation of Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
<An open access book at http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no33\_ses/index.html> This v... more <An open access book at http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no33_ses/index.html>
This volume consists of eight chapters, each of which deals with at least two of the following subjects: strengths and weaknesses of empire; boundaries between empire and other types of states; the various ways of governing different peoples and the roles of intermediaries, collaborators, and rebels; the impact of modernity on empires and their ambiguous roles in modernization; the center-periphery and metropolis-colony relationships, including the questions of autonomy, and its persistence in the postcolonial/neocolonial era; the process of decolonization, especially its interactions with the Cold War logic, related to the new imperialist rivalry between capitalist and socialist powers. Most of the chapters focus on a particular empire or region but place it in the broader contexts of world history, occasionally comparing it with other empires and regions.
Chapter 1
Empire and Transformation: The Politics of Difference / Jane Burbank
Chapter 2
Zar-o Zur: Gold and Force: Safavid Iran as a Tributary Empire / Rudi Matthee
Chapter 3
Indian Aristocrats, British Imperialists and “Conservative Modernization” after the Great Rebellion / Maria Misra
Chapter 4
Invitation, Adaptation, and Resistance to Empires: Cases of Central Asia / Uyama Tomohiko
Chapter 5
Toward an Empire of Republics: Transformation of Russia in the Age of Total War, Revolution, and Nationalism / Ikeda Yoshiro
Chapter 6
The Making of “an American Empire” and US Responses to Decolonization in the Early Cold War Years / Kan Hideki
Chapter 7
Road to Bandung: China’s Evolving Approach to De-Colonization / Qiang Zhai
Chapter 8
Is China Becoming an Empire? Strategic Tradition and the Possible Options for Contemporary China / Tsai Tung-Chieh
گفتارهایی در تاریخ عصر صفوی, 2024
Festschrift in 3 vols. bringing together my articles in translation
حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات), 2023
حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات) رودی متی ترجم... more حلقه‌های گمشده / برگ‌هایی از تاریخ اقتصادی و اجتماعی ایران عصر صفوی (مجموعه مقالات)
رودی متی
ترجمه سمیه خانی‌پور
چاپ اول ۱۴۰۱، نشر تاریخ ایران
قطع رقعی، ۳۹۸صفحه، جلد شومیز
قیمت: ۲۶۰۰۰۰تومان
خرید اینترنتی:
toosbook.ir/p/حلقه-گمشده
translation of The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver
Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In man... more Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess―whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking’s many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to ‘hypocrisy’ or the temptations of ‘forbidden fruit’. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its ‘absence’ as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith―from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdoğan’s Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan―he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God―the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources in multiple languages, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.
فصلنامه فرهنگ بان, 2021
Persian trans. of "The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period"
The Safavid World, 2021
The mathematical sciences and medicine were the two scholarly domains outside the religious disci... more The mathematical sciences and medicine were the two scholarly domains outside the religious disciplines, which had a professional representation at the court and market place. The professional representative of the mathematical sciences was the astrologer. The highest-ranking representative of the medical field was – as in the case of astrology – the head physician at court, the hakim-bashi. Most extant Arabic and Persian texts on one or more of the mathematical sciences were written by madrasa teachers or copied by their students. Teaching the mathematical sciences at madrasas involved primarily arithmetic, algebra, geometry and astronomy. Safavid astrolabes are characterized by a number of shared features. They are usually fitted with a decorated throne. Their rete with the star pointers carries a uniquely elegant, mostly floral design. Medical works of the Safavid period provide some clues as to which books were considered relevant to the knowledge of well-educated doctors and as respectable sources for compiling different kinds of medical writings.
Persian translation of Russians in Iran (2018)
The Safavid World, 2021
Book Description The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex... more Book Description The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources. In addition to political history and religious life, the chapters in this volume cover economic conditions, commercial links and activities, social relations, and artistic expressions. They do so in ways that stretch both the temporal and geographical perimeters of the subject, and contributors also examine Safavid Iran with an eye to both its Mongol and Timurid antecedents and its long afterlife following the fall of the dynasty. Unlike traditional scholarship which tended to view the country as unique, sui generis, and barely affected by the outside world, The Safavid World situates Iran in a wider, regional or global context. Examining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of the Safavid world and the history and culture of Iran and the Middle East.
Rusha dar Iran, 2021
Persian translation of Russians in Iran (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
Second, unauthorized Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iran... more Second, unauthorized Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-100 (2005)
Keshvar-e Portugal, Khalij-e Fars va Iran-e Safavi, 2020
Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011, edited with Jorge Flores ) translated into P... more Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011, edited with Jorge Flores ) translated into Persian: Keshvar-e Portugal, Khalij-e Fars va Iran-e Safavi, trans. Hamidreza Ziba’i (Tehran: Bonyad-e Iranshenasi, 2020).
Giovanni-Tommasso Minadoi: The War between the Turks and the Persians, 2019
Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History (2005)
Third Persian translation of Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
<An open access book at http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no33\_ses/index.html> This v... more <An open access book at http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/publish/no33_ses/index.html>
This volume consists of eight chapters, each of which deals with at least two of the following subjects: strengths and weaknesses of empire; boundaries between empire and other types of states; the various ways of governing different peoples and the roles of intermediaries, collaborators, and rebels; the impact of modernity on empires and their ambiguous roles in modernization; the center-periphery and metropolis-colony relationships, including the questions of autonomy, and its persistence in the postcolonial/neocolonial era; the process of decolonization, especially its interactions with the Cold War logic, related to the new imperialist rivalry between capitalist and socialist powers. Most of the chapters focus on a particular empire or region but place it in the broader contexts of world history, occasionally comparing it with other empires and regions.
Chapter 1
Empire and Transformation: The Politics of Difference / Jane Burbank
Chapter 2
Zar-o Zur: Gold and Force: Safavid Iran as a Tributary Empire / Rudi Matthee
Chapter 3
Indian Aristocrats, British Imperialists and “Conservative Modernization” after the Great Rebellion / Maria Misra
Chapter 4
Invitation, Adaptation, and Resistance to Empires: Cases of Central Asia / Uyama Tomohiko
Chapter 5
Toward an Empire of Republics: Transformation of Russia in the Age of Total War, Revolution, and Nationalism / Ikeda Yoshiro
Chapter 6
The Making of “an American Empire” and US Responses to Decolonization in the Early Cold War Years / Kan Hideki
Chapter 7
Road to Bandung: China’s Evolving Approach to De-Colonization / Qiang Zhai
Chapter 8
Is China Becoming an Empire? Strategic Tradition and the Possible Options for Contemporary China / Tsai Tung-Chieh
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2006
Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social a... more Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.
I.B.Tauris eBooks, 2012
Page 1. Persia in Crisis Safavid Declineand the Fall of Isfahan RudiMatthee Page 2. Rudi Matthee ... more Page 1. Persia in Crisis Safavid Declineand the Fall of Isfahan RudiMatthee Page 2. Rudi Matthee holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles. He taught at the University of Delaware from ...
Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 11, 2016
This article examines patterns of food consumption in early modern Iran from a historical perspec... more This article examines patterns of food consumption in early modern Iran from a historical perspective and in a global context. The discussion focuses on the period of the Safavid and the Qajar dynasties, or the early sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. The article first considers Iran’s cultural linkage to the world between the seventh-century Arab invasion and the advent of modern communications in relatively recent times. It then looks at the origins and movement of food in Iran before analyzing the diet of Iranians, especially fresh fruit and vegetables. It also explores regional variations in food consumption patterns in Iran and concludes with an overview of the changes that have occurred in food consumption patterns in the country since the 1960s.
Journal of World History, 1996
ecent years have seen a surge in scholarly attention to consumption in early modern times. A fair... more ecent years have seen a surge in scholarly attention to consumption in early modern times. A fair share of the resulting scholarship has been devoted to the study of stimulants, such as coffee and tea, which are no longer viewed as mere commodities in the trade and consumer revolutions, but are now explored as emblems and symbols of religious practice, social relations, or political change. Scholars have addressed the function of these beverages in religious imagery and medical experimentation, examined their acceptance and distribution as indices of social class and status, and focused on governmental reactions to their importation and dissemination, which ranged from legal prohibition to fiscal stimulation. 1 Sidney Mintz has studied the links among the production, spread, and consumption of tea in conjunction with the spread of sugar in eighteenth-century Britain. 2 Wolfgang Schivelbusch has shown how, in the various societies where it made inroads, coffee in the early modern West embodied now the rational spirit of the Enlightenment and capitalist enterprise, now the mood of * I would like to thank Iraj Afshar and Abbas Amanat for reading and commenting on an earlier version of this paper. 1 Recent social studies of coffee and other stimulants in European countries include the contributions in
The American Historical Review, Oct 1, 2001
Cambridge University Press eBooks, 1999
Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social a... more Using a wide range of archival and written sources, Rudi Matthee considers the economic, social and political networks established between Iran, its neighbours and the world at large, through the prism of the late Safavid silk trade. In so doing, he demonstrates how silk, a resource crucial to state revenue and the only commodity to span Iran's entire economic activity, was integral to aspects of late Safavid society, including its approach to commerce, export routes and, importantly, to the political and economic problems which contributed to its collapse in the early 1700s. In a challenge to traditional scholarship, the author argues that despite the introduction of a maritime, western-dominated channel, Iran's traditional land-based silk export continued to expand right up to the end of the seventeenth century. The book makes a major theoretical contribution to the debates on the social and economic history of the pre-modern world.
Middle Eastern Studies, 2021
Primarily proscribed for its effect – mind-clouding intoxication – in the Quran, alcohol has neve... more Primarily proscribed for its effect – mind-clouding intoxication – in the Quran, alcohol has nevertheless been consumed in surprisingly large quantities in traditional Islamic culture and society, its lure enhanced by the very rejection it labored under. Drinking was widespread among rulers and elites, from the time of the early Islamic empires, the Umayyads and the Abbasids in the so-called classical age (661-1258), to the early modern ones, the Ottomans in West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, the Safavids and the Qajars in Iran, and the Mughals in South Asia. Most sultans and shahs were serious revelers, and booze was inherently part of their carousing. Commoners tended not to imbibe, but to the extent that they did, it was part of a subculture of subterfuge and furtiveness, with men sneaking off to taverns located in back alleys in the non-Muslim quarters of town, dark haunts run by Armenians, Greeks, or Jews. A few generalizations can be made about this vast (and under-rese...
Iranian Studies, 2017
Salvia santolinifolia Boiss. is a perennial aromatic plant from Lamiaceae family that grows wild ... more Salvia santolinifolia Boiss. is a perennial aromatic plant from Lamiaceae family that grows wild in Iran. In the current study, the aerial parts of this plant were collected at full flowering stage from four habitats in Hormozgan province including Abmah, Ghotbabad, Dorahi-Meymand and Sirmand in 2018. After confirmation of scientific names of the plants by Herbarium of Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization of Hormozgan province, the plant materials were dried at shade and at room temperature. The essential oils were obtained by hydrodistillation, the yields were calculated based on dry weight and the oils were analyzed by GC and GC/MS. Results showed that maximum and minimum essential oil contents (w/w%) obtained from Ghotbabad (0.93%) and Abmah (0.65%) ecotypes, respectively. According to ecotypes, thirty-six components, representing 99.6-99.9% of the total components, were identified. α-Pinene, humulene epoxide, limonene, camphene, α-terpineol, myrcene and α-cadinol were the major compounds. Monoterpene hydrocarbons were the main group of constituents in all samples (69.3-80.5%). The chemical variation among ecotypes according to their geographical and bioclimatic distribution could be considered for in situ and ex situ conservation and domestication of the plants.
The Historian, 2015
Iran is commonly seen as having generated history’s first world empire—an ideologically underpinn... more Iran is commonly seen as having generated history’s first world empire—an ideologically underpinned superstate ruling over a culturally diverse population. The Achaemenid Empire (c. 550-330 BCE) “invented,” developed, and refined many imperial institutions, devices, and tools. It introduced the concept of the ruler as the master of the universe and a reflection of the divine. Its rulers also pioneered various methods and mechanisms designed to optimize control, from gathering information through a network of spies to the notion of programmatic, or at least pragmatic, toleration involving a certain latitudinarianism on the part of the state vis-à-vis the religious beliefs and practices of its subjects. Given these antecedents, further reinforced by another unmistakable Iranian iteration of empire, that of the Sasanians (250–644 CE), it should be uncontroversial to call the state that arose a millennium later, that of the Safavids, an empire. The Safavids indeed were a latter-day representative of an imperial tradition in the Middle East going back to the beginning of the second millennium CE. The state they forged and oversaw combined ancient Middle-Eastern structures harking back all the way to the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Achaemenids, and Turco-Mongol elements from the steppe formations originating in Central and Inner Asia that had intruded upon the fertile lands of west and south Asia with the onset of the second millennium. The result was tension, but
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2009
This paper examines the organizing ideological and infrastructural principles of the Safavid stat... more This paper examines the organizing ideological and infrastructural principles of the Safavid state structure and questions whether the Safavid state had the capacity and universality to qualify as an empire. Until now, the Safavid state has only been given equal status to the Ottoman and Mughal state as a “gunpowder empire”. But with this approach some other aspects tip the balance towards the cohesion and coherence that enabled the Safavid Empire to function as an empire in spite of exiguous economic resources and the limitations of ideological underpinnings. When some of these aspects lost their force, this contributed to the dissolution of the glue that kept Iranian society together and to the demise of the Safavid state in the early eighteenth century.Le cadre de cette contribution est l’État safavide et elle en explore les principes de la structure étatique au niveau de l’organisation, de l’idéologie, et de l’infrastructure pour établir si cet état a été un véritable empire au ...
Iranian Studies, 1991
La plus belle charge de la cour, c'est la faveur.Safavid historiography has oscillated betwee... more La plus belle charge de la cour, c'est la faveur.Safavid historiography has oscillated between admiration and vilification in its appraisal of Shah ‘Abbas II's reign (1642-1666). In the accounts of contemporary observers—for the most part European travelers—one finds favorable descriptions of the shah and his court as part of a positive assessment of the overall state of the country. Impressed by the hospitality they enjoyed at the court of Isfahan, these foreign visitors spoke highly of a magnanimous and tolerant monarch; moreover, the absence of rebellion and relatively secure roads prompted them to refer to Iran as a prosperous and stable country. Those who visited Iran within a generation after the shah's death corroborated this image; indeed, in their narratives one already finds an element of nostalgia for the days of ‘Abbas II.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2010
This essay explores the historical roots of the enigma that Iran perpetually presents to the outs... more This essay explores the historical roots of the enigma that Iran perpetually presents to the outside world—a bleak and forbidding, deeply religious place that is also welcoming, poetic, and remarkably secular—by tracing the image European Enlightenment thinkers constructed of the country and its inhabitants. They were inspired by the lived experience of famous seventeenth-century travelers such as Jean Chardin and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, but, writing after the fall of the Safavids, at a time when Iran had dissolved into chaos and despotism and when Westerners no longer visited the country, they ended up constructing an imaginary realm. Iranians simultaneously appear as stoics and epicureans; they are spiritually inclined but also crassly materialistic; they are often amazingly tolerant but as often fanatical, and though refined, they can also be unspeakably cruel. The resulting contradictory imagery—from which we still borrow—shows us Iran as the complex place that it was but also ...
Page 1. Persia in Crisis Safavid Declineand the Fall of Isfahan RudiMatthee Page 2. Rudi Matthee ... more Page 1. Persia in Crisis Safavid Declineand the Fall of Isfahan RudiMatthee Page 2. Rudi Matthee holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles. He taught at the University of Delaware from ...
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1–19, 2023
This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed i... more This article examines the way in which Iran's eighteenth-century ruler Nader Shah was portrayed in contemporary Europe as well as in Iran, and how the resulting image-half national hero, half ruthless warlord-has resonated until today. In an age short on 'great' leaders, Nader spoke to the imagination like no other contemporary ruler, Western or Asian. Nader's subsequent record can be read as a palimpsest, a layered series of images of multiple world conquerors, from Alexander to Napoleon. The latter, who shared Nader's humble background and evoked a similar ambivalence, represented the closest analogue, turning him into the European Nader Shah. In the modern West, Nader no longer speaks to the imagination. Modern Iranians, by contrast, have come to see him as the Iranian Napoleon. While still ambivalent about him, they admire him as the ruler who regenerated the nation and ended foreign occupation, yet his undeniable cruelty and imperialism make him an awkward national hero.
Payam-e Baharestan, 2018
The Politics of Protection: Iberian Missionaries in Iran Translation of "The Politics of Protecti... more The Politics of Protection: Iberian Missionaries in Iran Translation of "The Politics of Protection: Iberian Missionaries in Iran during the Reign of Shah
Abbas I (1587-1629),” in Sabine Schmidtke and Camille Adang, eds, Contacts and Controversies between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Pre-Modern Iran (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag), pp. 245-71
Payam-e Baharestan, 1997
translation of “Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harassment,” Studies on Persianate So... more translation of “Christians in Safavid Iran: Hospitality and Harassment,” Studies on Persianate Societies 3 (2005), pp. 3-43
Cihannüma Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi Sayı V/2 , 2019
Turkish translation of: “The Decline of Safavid Iran in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Per... more Turkish translation of: “The Decline of Safavid Iran in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Persianate Studies 8 (2015), pp. 276-308
Cihannüma Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi Sayı VI/1 , 2020
Turkish translation of “Anti-Ottoman Politics and Transit Rights: The Seventeenth-Century Trade i... more Turkish translation of “Anti-Ottoman Politics and Transit Rights: The Seventeenth-Century Trade in Silk between Safavid Iran and Muscovy,” Cahiers du Monde russe, vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1994), s. 739-76, by İlker Külbilge
دو فصلنامه علمی تخصصی دانشجویی پارسه شماره سی، , 2018
Cihannüma Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi Sayı , 2017
Turkish translation of "Was Safavid Iran and Empire?"
Turkish translation of "The Safavid-Ottoman Frontier: Iraq-i Arab as Seen by the Safavids"
تاریخ خلیج فارس از قدیمترین دوران تا اکنون
Faslnameh-ye Tarikh-e Ravabet-e Khareji 13 (1391/2012): 99-143
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Midden Oosten en Islam Publicatie 12, 1984
Midden Oosten en Islam Publicatie 11, 1983
n el segle XVIU, algunes Persones consideraven que el tabac no era exclusivament orisinari d'Amdr... more n el segle XVIU, algunes Persones consideraven que el tabac no era exclusivament orisinari d'Amdrica, sin6 que tamb6 "
American Historical Review, 2024
By exploring the history of the symbiotic and interactive relationship between war and drugs, Kil... more By exploring the history of the symbiotic and interactive
relationship between war and drugs, Killer High covers a vastly under-researched field. It looks at alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, opium, amphetamines,
and cocaine from a variety of angles and examines how they have been entwined with armed conflict in five different ways: as war while on drugs, war through drugs, war for drugs, war against drugs, and drugs after war.
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2022
From François Georgeon, the eminent Ottoman historian who has given us a first-rate biography of ... more From François Georgeon, the eminent Ottoman historian who has given us a first-rate biography of Sultan Abdülhamid II (2003) and, more recently, the wonderfully evocative Le mois le plus long. Ramadan à Istanbul (2017), comes another well-researched and engagingly written study-an examination of the place and role of alcohol in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, from the arrival of the Turks in Anatolia to the reign of Atatürk. Alcohol sits at the heart of Islam in Georgeon's study, the way sex sat at the heart of Victorian Britain for Michel Foucault, present through its presumed absence, ubiquitous yet rarely mentioned other than in winks and whispers. Like Muslims anywhere and through time, Ottoman Muslims found myriad ways to evade their faith's formal ban on wine, engaging in casuistic arguments to justify their drinking habits. What helped, the author reminds us, is that most Turks adhered to the Hanafi madhhab, Islam's most lenient school with respect to alcohol, making allowances for a moderate intake of nabīdh, wine not made from grapes. Alcohol, although proscribed, was allowed to flow so long as it did not threaten the social order, and it had to flow because it brought in indispensable tax revenue. Drawing on a plethora of sources, Ottoman historiographical works, foreign reports and travelogues, and belles lettres, poetry above all, Georgeon develops this thesis in a wide-ranging exploration of an empire that, at its height, stretched from Tunisia to the Caucasus and from Bosnia to the Hejaz, including some of the world's oldest sites of viticulture. Chapter One, "Héritages," explores the basics, the origins of the Ottoman acquaintance with alcohol, and the way society dealt with it. The Turks, Georgeon argues, came from Inner Asia with their own booze, qumiss, fermented mare's milk, but were also heavily influenced by pre-Islamic Iranian drinking customs of which they learned at the tenth and eleventh-century courts of the Samanids and the Ghaznavids. Their conquest of Anatolia and the Balkans next familiarized them with a mostly Christian culture to which the grape was integral and where drinking was common. Small wonder then that, despite Islam's formal rejection of alcohol, viticulture and viniculture suffered but did not disappear under the Ottomans. Jews and Christians, almost half of the empire's population, were allowed to produce and sell alcohol, and even though Muslims were not supposed to either purchase or consume it, they were always essential customers. Most people drank, if they drank at all, in the privacy of their homes. Muslims would only frequent the Christianand Jewish-run drinking establishments stealthily, fearful of the punishment that awaited those who were caught. And then there was the ultimate factor, valid for all time: wine generated tax revenue for the state. In these circumstances it is not surprising that the first recorded ban on the manufacture and use of alcohol was only issued in the mid-sixteenth century, under Sultan Süleyman (r. 1520-66). Chapter two considers the Ottoman empire at its early modern height, expansive, pluralistic, stretching from Algeria and Syria to Hungary, all ancient and storied wine-growing regions. Alcohol followed this multiplicity in its various manifestations, ranging from wine to boza, a lightly alcoholic millet or cereal-based beverage favored by the poor, to rakı, an anise-flavored spirit distilled from grapes, another type of alcohol not mentioned in the Qurʾan and thus deemed acceptable by many Muslims. This chapter takes us to the epicenter of Ottoman drinking, "Christian" Istanbul, Galata and Pera (modern Beyoğlu) across the Golden Horn, a suburb filled with hundreds of bozahanes and meyhanes, run by Greeks but frequented by all once darkness fell. Georgeon explains the distinction between
The Indian Economic and Social History Review 58, 2021
Book Reviews / 429 organic histories. Such accounts shift the order of pre-eminence from politica... more Book Reviews / 429 organic histories. Such accounts shift the order of pre-eminence from political capitals (such as Delhi) to Gujarat as a site of a deeper history of a community in a unique geography-a 'unique and regional identity'. Narrative Pasts makes an important methodological intervention, where Balachandran critically reads texts deemed 'religious' or 'hagiographic' for their political, historical, and commemorative significance. It is a model for premodern scholarship that takes seriously the ways in which history and memory are equally invested in the making of community. Balachandran joins a group of a stellar new cohort of scholars of history and religion who are rewriting our understanding of the subcontinent through the early modern past: scholars such as Supriya Gandhi, Abhishek Kaicker, Aparna Kapadia, Shankar Nair and Anubhuti Maurya. Reading across these new works necessitates us to not only rethink 'region' but also critically reimagine geographies and the limits of ideas of 'diaspora', 'settler', and 'migrant'. Balachandran's rich study offers new approaches to other histories of mobilities that shape a 'region', for example in the lives and narratives of Jahanian Jahan-Gasht (d. 1384) for Sindh or Guru Nanak (d. 1539) for Punjab. Balachandran opens Narrative Pasts with a visit to a sayyid in Mangrol who had preserved his own family's history, rendered as a shajara back to the Prophet, through his ancestors in Gujarat. As we think alongside Balachandran on the 'making' of Gujarat not as an 'idea' but as a 'embedded' place, we see how Gujarat is knitted together from diverse histories, memories and families of belonging. In Narrative Pasts, we are given a way of conceiving anew such senses of belonging.
Middle East Journal, 2021
Review of Chelsi Mueller, The Origins of the Arab-Iranian Conflict
The Middle East Journal, 2021
Der Islam, 2021
Of the various Catholic missionary orders that settled in Safavid Iran in the early to mid-17th c... more Of the various Catholic missionary orders that settled in Safavid Iran in the early to mid-17th century, allowed to operate in the realm of the shah and under his auspices, the Discalced Carmelites are at once the best and the least well known. A large part of the documentation they generated in the form of countless letters
Iranian Studies 22:4, 1989
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Iranian Studies 53:1-2, 2020
Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-1-933823-94-2 (hbk), vxi + 210 pp. Rudi Matthee To cite this article: ... more Publishers, 2018, ISBN 978-1-933823-94-2 (hbk), vxi + 210 pp. Rudi Matthee To cite this article: Rudi Matthee (2020) Studies in the History of Medicine in Iran, Iranian Studies, 53:1-2, 181-184,
Perspectives on Politics, 2017
This handsomely produced, beautifully illustrated collection of essays, the fruit of two internat... more This handsomely produced, beautifully illustrated collection of essays, the fruit of two international seminars held at Princeton University and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, respectively, represents a truly collaborative undertaking. It offers a series of thought-provoking essays on different aspects of the wide-ranging ways in which the seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company (VOC) interacted with Asia, not just by purveying spices, silk and silver, but also, and more so, by acting as an agent that mediated various forms of material culture. The operative terms in this volume are transfer and mediation by way of adaptation and appropriation, as opposed to older and traditionally used notions such as expansion, influence and diffusion. This terminology is explicitly designed to avoid the now loaded connotation of one-sided domination and hegemony and their corollary, cultural superiority. In the absence of real reciprocity in the cultural sphere, a more elegant alternative such as cultural exchange indeed does not seem applicable. The nomenclature selected here has a price, though. The terms adopted seem apposite for the conveyance of commodities and objects, even art objects, yet are inadequate to capture the subjectivity of the people who carried these objects and infused them with meaning. One is also left with the question of whether covering an interactive process involving actors that, for all their presumed " equality, " were worlds apart epistemologically, with terms that connote or at least imply equality, clarifies anything. Still, bland and disembodied as they are, " transfer " and " mediation " faute de mieux fit the circumstances, for only in South Africa and in a few locales in the Indonesian Archipelago were the Dutch truly dominant. In most places, in fact, especially in Japan, the Mughal state, and Safavid Iran, they had to bow − sometimes literally − to superior Asian political power. In their introduction the editors agree that no uniform patterns exists in the mode of conveyance addressed in this volume. The VOC dealt with and responded to, a wide variety of cultural and political environments, and the outcome varied accordingly. The Company's operations in port cities such as Batavia and Cape Town, where it established something resembling political control, are one extreme. The critical mass created in these urban centers allowed for European decorative arts to trickle down to the Dutch residents and the indigenous elite
TheMaghreb Review 49, 2024
American Historical Review, 2024
Asian Review of Books, 2023
Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't C... more Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't Christianity prohibit adultery? In Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop Door, Rudi Matthee explores the contradiction between the formal ban on alcohol and the essential cultural role of wine in Muslims societies over the ages. At first glance, the prohibition of wine appears straightforward. Islam's scriptures consider wine impure, drunkenness improper, and drunkards excluded from heavenly rewards. But historically practices were more complicated. As long as drinking did not disturb the social order, eg tippling
The Maghreb Review 49:2, 2024
The goal of Matthee’s impressive monograph, covering 1400 years and an area stretching from Moroc... more The goal of Matthee’s impressive monograph, covering 1400 years and an area stretching from Morocco to India, is to serve as an overview of the history of the consumption of alcohol in the Muslim world. In this, his book is the first of its kind, and he rightly presents the topic as having been under aresearched, up to now, by both historians working on the general history of alcohol and researchers focusing on the study of Islam.
Asian Review of Books, 2023
Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't C... more Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't Christianity prohibit adultery? In Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop Door, Rudi Matthee explores the contradiction between the formal ban on alcohol and the essential cultural role of wine in Muslims societies over the ages. At first glance, the prohibition of wine appears straightforward. Islam's scriptures consider wine impure, drunkenness improper, and drunkards excluded from heavenly rewards. But historically practices were more complicated. As long as drinking did not disturb the social order, eg tippling
روزنامه شهروند ۱۲۲۶ ۲۷ شهریور ۱۳۹۶, 2017
Interview with Mr Mani Salehi Allameh about his forthcoming Persian translation of The Pursuit of... more Interview with Mr Mani Salehi Allameh about his forthcoming Persian translation of The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900.
Criticism arising from disagreement is what advances debate, making scholarship progress. A criti... more Criticism arising from disagreement is what advances debate, making scholarship progress. A critical review therefore should leave an author unperturbed—as long as it is honest and fair. Kioumars Ghereghlou's review of my book Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan is neither. Rather than engaging in a serious and substantive discussion of the book's content and argument, it offers a string of innuendo-filled swipes and tendentious statements reflecting a prickly type of modern identity politics. I thus feel compelled to respond. Ghereghlou begins his review by insinuating that I condescendingly view Iran as a nation of megalomaniacs. This is an absurd suggestion, the distorted distillation of an assembly of quotes cobbled together from all over the book, lifted out of context. To say, as I do, that Iranians are—and see themselves as—the proud inheritors of a great civilization is not the same as proclaiming that they are megalomaniacs with a " myopic collective memory " with regard to the collapse of the Safavids in 1722. Yes, I should have spoken of " modern Iranians " as opposed to " Iranians " in my introduction. And I should have been more careful differentiating between scholars and the general public. Yet I stand by my opinion that, all too often, (modern) Iranians lay the blame for their nation's misfortunes on scheming foreigners, thus forfeiting a clear-eyed perspective on their country's history. And even Iranian scholars often look at that same history as a long sequence of perseverance and its reward, regeneration, in the face of loss and defeat suffered by a noble, culturally superior people at the hands of outside invaders eager to sap its wealth and destroy its culture—from Alexander and the Arabs to the Mongols and the Afghans and, in modern times, the British. It is this narrative that I sought to undermine in my book, by talking about rupture, regional variation, and internal conflict, not to denigrate Iranians but to offer a fresh analysis of the forces that brought down the remarkable empire that the Safavids oversaw. My reviewer makes it sound as if I claim to be the first to offer a multifaceted explanation of that same fall. I do not. Many have gone before me, among them Iranians, as I point out, but most have emphasized the moral dimension. If it is true that until the late 19th century Iranian commentators have generally identified internal factors, modern Iranians have more than made up for this by emphasizing external forces. Also, Itimad al-Saltana spoke of the complex reasons for the Safavid decline and fall 130 years before I did, but his main source, by his own admission, was the Polish Jesuit Judas Thaddeus Krusinski, whose eyewitness account of the siege and sack of Isfahan
's " Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah " combine discussion of the development of Isfahan as imp... more 's " Reminiscences of the Maidan-i Shah " combine discussion of the development of Isfahan as imperial capital by Abbas I with the author's childhood memories of growing up in the Safavid royal quarters adjoining the Maidan in the house of his grandmother, a Qajar princess and " first lady of Isfahan. " The house had formerly been the residence of the last Safavid Chief Eunuch and stood amidst a number of other buildings surviving in various states of repair from the Safavid age. Bakhtiar recollects some of these now vanished buildings in vivid and precise detail and gives also fascinating glimpses of the life and uses of the Maidan during the first half of the 20th century. Charles Melville takes as his subject the apparent lack of interest in historical subjects among Safavid painters (in contrast to Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal practice). An extensive survey of manuscripts allows him to qualify the previously held assumption of Safavid neglect of historical painting. First, he finds that the Timurid tradition of illustrating histories continued under the Safavids, though primarily in 16th century Shiraz before the consolidation of Safavid control there and not, as far as we know, through the patronage of Safavid princes. Second, he notes that while Safavid court chronicles were not illustrated, manuscripts of several popular, romanticized histories did frequently contain pictures. This type of history was preferred for illustration, Melville suggests, because of the epic-romantic nature of the text itself, which lent itself to the kind of pictorial treatment given to the Shahnama and other verse epics and romances. Melville does not challenge the consensus that the Safavids showed little interest in the illustration of contemporary historical events, but he argues that this may have been because the mythologized past, first and foremost in the shape of the Shahnama, provided sufficient outlet for the illustration of idealized royal exploits. The principle difference, he suggests, with Ottoman practice was that Safavid artists, whose patrons remain for the most part unidentified, preferred to depict an idealized past, while their Ottoman counterparts, working for official commissions, concentrated on the present. The final chapter by Paul Losensky is a gem of an article on Safavid architectural chronograms— poems inscribed on buildings to record their date of construction and other information. It opens with an introduction to the subject, based on a single simple chronogram that allows the non-specialist reader to understand the mechanics of this highly specialized genre of poetry. This is followed by a discussion of the variety and complexity of the Safavid chronogram and the breath-taking virtuosity of its exponents. An appendix listing the architectural chronograms examined in researching the chapter provides all that would be needed to introduce students to this class of inscription, which is so important for dating and contextualizing buildings. Regrettably, the book is marred by errors and typographic slips in several chapters. However, despite the uneven quality, this is a useful volume containing several contributions that will become essential reading for those working in the field of Safavid studies. The chapters by Matthee and Losensky also particularly lend themselves for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate teaching. In Persia in Crisis, Rudi Matthee focuses on political and economic trends and events that catalyzed the downfall of the Safavid dynasty in 1722. Drawing on a lifetime of research on socioeconomic history of late Safavid Iran, this book coalesces the conclusions Matthee had already drawn in his
Mehr-Nameh , Mar 2015
Discussion between Dariush Rahmaniyan, Reza Mokhtari Esfahani, Hasan Afshar, and Nozhat Ahmadi ab... more Discussion between Dariush Rahmaniyan, Reza Mokhtari Esfahani, Hasan Afshar, and Nozhat Ahmadi about Iran dar Bohran
Bulletin of the School or Oriental and African Studies
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
6 "f Reviews of Books L286 to mention the perilous streets of outlying workingclass settlements. ... more 6 "f Reviews of Books L286 to mention the perilous streets of outlying workingclass settlements. In complaining about the introduction of electric streetcars and resisting other manifestations of modernity, Odessans were hardly unique. In fact, support for such innovations, particularly when they added new revenue streams to city coffers, sharply distinguished the burgeoning municipal progressive movement from its conservative opponents from Moscow to Kharkiv and beyond. And if police violated the privacy and security of Jewish Moldavankans, bursting into homes where they expected to find shady characters, Kiev was even more notorious for its periodic oblavy (round-ups). Indeed, the absence of comparisons with Kiev is surprising, given the importance of Jews in the shaping of the culture of both cities.
Encyclopaedia Iranica at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/shaykh-ali-khan
Encyclopedia of Islam III
Encyclopaedia Iranica
1592/93-1654), grand vizier under Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1588-1629) and then again under Shah ʿAbbās I... more 1592/93-1654), grand vizier under Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1588-1629) and then again under Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642-66). ḴALIFA SOLṬĀN (Solṭān-al-ʿOlamāʾ, b. Isfahan, 1001/1592-93, d. Māzandarān, March 1654), grand vizier under Shah ʿAbbās I (r. 1588-1629) and then again under Shah ʿAbbās II (r. 1642-66). Ḵalifa Solṭān, whose original name was Sayyed ʿAlāʾ-al-Din Ḥosayn, was the son of Mirzā Rafiʿ-al-Din Moḥammad and a scion of a well-know family of Marʿaši sayyeds, claiming descent from Qawām-al-Din Mir Bozorg, who ruled Māzandarān in 1385-79. One of his ancestors, Amir Neẓām-al-Din, had settled in Isfahan in the 15th century. Afterwards the family moved up in the ranks of society, owning land in the vicinity of Isfahan, intermarrying with local notables, and attracting the attention of Shah Esmāʿil I (r. 1501-24) and Shah Ṭahmāsp I (r.
Encyclopedia of Islam III
Mukhta ar (Ibn Khallikān, 2:73; Makdisi, 197). It followed the standard arrangement of fi qh work... more Mukhta ar (Ibn Khallikān, 2:73; Makdisi, 197). It followed the standard arrangement of fi qh works, with major sections (kutub) on fasting 4:389), inheritance shares (4:68), witnessing (4:69-71), and the like, and subsections (abwāb) on such topics as agency ( wikāla , ibid.) and rendering a verdict on the basis of one witness and an oath ( al-qa ā bi-l-shāhid wa-l-yamīn , 4:71-3). This work is cited by al-Māwardī in his al-āwī and very often by al-Nawawī in his al-Majmū (1:29: al-Ta līq ; or al-Shaykh Abū āmid; 1:147, 151, 154, etc.). It is also quoted frequently by al-Zarkashī in his Ba r , and by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, but apparently only three times 1:188, 206, 216). Al-Subkī reports having seen the greater part of this work in a copy written by Sulaym b. Ayyūb al-Rāzī (d. 447/1055) that was a waqf of the Nā iriyya madrasa in Damascus (after studying with Abū amīd, Sulaym became a murābi in the vicinity of Tyre and gave lectures there.) Another copy was dictated by Abū āmid to his student al-Bandanījī 4:388; Makdisi, 198); (3) U ūl al-fi qh , quoted by al-Zarkashī (1:401; 2:379; 3:259). (4) al-Rawnaq ([mukhta ar] fī l-furū al-shāfi iyya, quoted by al-Zarkashī 4:491) is also attributed to him. Taqī al-Dīn, the father of Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī, went no further than positing that attribution (al-Subkī, 4:68), and because it is written in the manner of Ibn al-Ma āmilī's al-Lubāb , al-Subkī thought it might have been composed by Abū ātim al-Qazwīnī (d. 440/1048-9), a pupil of al-Ma āmilī ( ājjī Khalīfa, 3:514, no. 6702).
Encyclopaedia Iranica
1999 FIRE ALTARS-FIREARMS I. HISTORY 6t9 Ritual on Achaemenid Seals." in Akten des VII. Internati... more 1999 FIRE ALTARS-FIREARMS I. HISTORY 6t9 Ritual on Achaemenid Seals." in Akten des VII. Internationalen Kongresses fiir Kunst und Archc)ologie, Milnchen 1976, AMI Ergiinzungsband 6, Berlin, 1979, pp.218-26. G. A. pugadhenkova, ,,Un temple du feu dans le 'grand Soghd'," in F. Grenet, ed., C ult e s e t monume nt s r e I i g i e ux dans I' As ia c e ntral e prdislamique, Paris, 1987, pp. 53-72.
Encyclopaedia Iranica
2008 63,+ JERUSALEM AND IRAN_.IESUITS IN SAFAVIDTERSIA but tocally managed byJewish ternple prie ... more 2008 63,+ JERUSALEM AND IRAN_.IESUITS IN SAFAVIDTERSIA but tocally managed byJewish ternple prie sts and scribes according to Jewish law. Documents from Egypt (see Porten and Yardeni) indicate that Jews in Egypt lookcd for advice ancl support fiom Jerusalem (see ELEPHANTINE)-
an offi cial mission to Cairo, to the court of the Fā imid caliph-imām al-Mustan ir (r. 427-87/10... more an offi cial mission to Cairo, to the court of the Fā imid caliph-imām al-Mustan ir (r. 427-87/1035-94). Alī b. al-usayn held the rank of ma dhūn to Ibrāhīm b. al-usayn al-āmidī (d. 557/1162), the second dā ī ( ātim al-āmidī, Tu fat alqulūb , MS Private collection of Mullā Qurbān usayn Godhrawala, fols. 101r, 102v, 104r, 152r -152v). He died on 5 Rama ān 554/20 September 1159 (Idrīs Imād al-Dīn, Nuzhat al-afkār wa-raw at alazhār , microfi lm, American University in Beirut, vol. 1, fol. 55v).
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Manuskripte und sonstige Sendungen, auch Besprechungsstücke, sind zu adressieren an die Redaktion... more Manuskripte und sonstige Sendungen, auch Besprechungsstücke, sind zu adressieren an die Redaktion (s.o.). Es wird höflich gebeten, Manuskripte für die Zeitschrift "Der Islam" nur nach vorheriger schriftlicher Vereinbarung mit den Herausgebern einzusenden.
Manuskripte und sonstige Sendungen, auch Besprechungsstücke, sind zu adressieren an die Redaktion... more Manuskripte und sonstige Sendungen, auch Besprechungsstücke, sind zu adressieren an die Redaktion (s.o.). Es wird höflich gebeten, Manuskripte für die Zeitschrift "Der Islam" nur nach vorheriger schriftlicher Vereinbarung mit den Herausgebern einzusenden.
Grammont et Michel Tuchscherer: Études Alexandrines, vols. 24, 29 and 30 | 248 Cristina Tonghini ... more Grammont et Michel Tuchscherer: Études Alexandrines, vols. 24, 29 and 30 | 248 Cristina Tonghini Christian Décobert, Jean-Yves Empereur et Christophe Picard (eds.): Alexandrie médiévale 4, Études Alexandrines 24, Centre d'Études Alexandrines | 248 Cristina Tonghini Alessio Sopracasa: Venezia e l'Egitto alla fine del Medioevo. Le tariffe di Alessandria, Études Alexandrines 29, Centre d'Études Alexandrines | 252 Cristina Tonghini Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont et Michel Tuchscherer (ed. and trans.): Pīrī Reʾīs, Evliyā Çelebī. Deux regards ottomans sur Alexandrie, Études Alexandrines 30 (Alexandrie ottomane 2), Centre d'Études Alexandrines | 254 Beatrice Nicolini John M. Flannery: The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747) | 256 Unangemeldet Heruntergeladen am | 03.05.16 16:35
Lecture about my book, Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islami... more Lecture about my book, Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
Apple Podcast about Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic W... more Apple Podcast about Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
New Books in Religion, 2023
،كرد ايجاد كاروانسرا 999 گويند مي اينكه ،كند ايجاد مثبتي تغييرات توانست عب... more ،كرد ايجاد كاروانسرا 999 گويند مي اينكه ،كند ايجاد مثبتي تغييرات توانست عباس شاه اما بود زياد راهزني و سرقت او از پيش .شد ايجاد مردم زندگي در ثباتي)خورشيدي 965-1007(صفوي عباس شاه دوره در تا نيز مردم و كرد پيدا رونق تجارت او دوره در .كردند استفاده وضعيت اين از مردم و آورد وجود به امنيتي كرده ايجاد او كه مسيرهايي و ها راه .است كرده ايجاد او كه است ثباتي و رفاه از اي نشانه اما ،است اغراق البته صد .رفت بين از پيشين امنيت آن و شد بدتر عباس شاه از بعد اوضاع كه كنند مي تاكيد آنها .گويند مي نيز مسافران و سياحان را اين .اند داشته امنيت حدي ايران يكس�و از يعني .اس�ت چنين هم هنوز و بود چنين زمان آن .اس�ت بزرگ پارادوكس يك ايران يا تضاد يك اين .است سنتي عميقا جامعه يك ديگر سوي از اما ،اس�ت خاورميانه جامعه ترين مدرن و ايران به من خاطر همين به .هست هم هنوز و بود زمان آن در پارادوكس اين .است عميق پارادوكس سال دو ،كنم مي صحبت زبان اين به روان طور به و ام خوانده هم عربي من .هس�تم مند عالقه ايرانيان به اين .ام نكرده پيدا ،دارم ايران به كه اي عالقه مشابه اي عالقه آنجا به نس�بت اما ،ام بوده مصر در هم من نگاه از ايران .است انگيز هيجان جامعه يك ايران اما ،نيست اعراب به نسبت قضاوت پيش معناي هنوز معما اين .است)fascinate(جذاب پديده يك ايران .كرد حل را آن توان نمي كه اس�ت معمايي .است بودن ايراني يا ايرانيت جوهر اين و هستند معنويت دنبال يكسو از ايرانيان .است نشده حل هم
Asian Review of Books, 2023
Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't C... more Why are we surprised that, while Islam forbids wine, Muslims have been known to imbibe? Doesn't Christianity prohibit adultery? In Angels Tapping at the Wine-shop Door, Rudi Matthee explores the contradiction between the formal ban on alcohol and the essential cultural role of wine in Muslims societies over the ages. At first glance, the prohibition of wine appears straightforward. Islam's scriptures consider wine impure, drunkenness improper, and drunkards excluded from heavenly rewards. But historically practices were more complicated. As long as drinking did not disturb the social order, eg tippling
Saiklerin ve Sebeplerin Işığında 986-998/1578-1590 Tarihli Osmanlı-Safevî Savaşı
Cihannüma: Tarih ve Coğrafya Araştırmaları Dergisi, III/2, (Aralık 2017), 2017