Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
Imperial Mysticisms: Piety and Power in Early Modern Empires from a Global Perspective
Artillery, bureaucracy, a monetary system, and a sense of religious mission were some of the factors that enabled early modern imperial dynasties, primarily, the Ming Chinese, Mughals, Safavids, Ottomans, the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, and the Aviz of Portugal, to hold sway over large parts of the inhabited world. The study of governance and social […]
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Travelers and Travelogues in Safavid Iran
The Soudavar Memorial Foundation is the main sponsor of the conference “Travelers and Travelogues in Safavid Iran”, National Library of Portugal, Lisbon 28-29 March 2018 This is the fourth and arguable the most interesting of a series of conference held in the Iberian Peninsula on the complexities of Hispano-Safavid relations which were a major contributor […]
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