From Splendour and Admiration to Ruin and Condescension: Western Travellers to Iran from the Safavids to the Qajars

Matthee, Rudi

doi:10.1080/05786967.2016.11882297

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“…This story unfolds in the context of early modern Eurasian circulation of goods and peoples and in that of European shifting experiences of Safavid Iran (Matthee, 2009(Matthee, , 2016. The interactions between Europe and 1 Denominations of monuments in Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam vary in scientific literature; for the reader's convenience, I will adopt those used in the work of Eric F. Schmidt (1953Schmidt ( , 1970, easily accessible online: https://oi.uchicago.edu /research/publications/oriental-institute-publications-oip.…”

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From the Field to the Bookshop. Shaping Persepolis in the Early 18th century

Giusti¹

2021

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Between the 17th and the 18th centuries three travelers -Jean Chardin, Engel-bert Kaempfer and Cornelis de Bruijn -tried to represent accurately the Iranian monuments of Persepolis and Naqsh-e Rostam. Social, material, and environmental factors influenced the travelers' observations on the field as well as the transformation of their notes and sketches in books and engravings designed for the public. In spite of the travelers' attempts at overcoming the difficulties of fieldwork and reproducing in print the reality of Persepolis, their claims to truth -especially de Bruijn's -were put in jeopardy not only by the nature of Persepolis as an unstable environment for the development of a historical knowledge, but also by their efforts to crystallize it through mobile material supports.

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Section: Introduction -Antiquity and Exoticism In The Early 18th Centurymentioning

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From the Field to the Bookshop. Shaping Persepolis in the Early 18th century

Giusti¹

2021

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France among the Most-Favored Nations: The French Commercial Policy and Influence in Iran (1815–48)

Mousavi¹

2021

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Iran's subjection to Russo-British influence has received the bulk of attention of modern scholarship dealing with the country's interaction with the outside world in the nineteenth century. This article, while not denying the central role played by these two powers in Iran’s domestic affairs at the time, draws attention to a third power with long-standing claims to influence in the country by way of trade policies—France. From the fall of Napoleon in 1815 until the French Revolution of 1848, the French monarchy was especially keen to encourage commerce with Iran, less as a source of increased wealth than to restore and expand French prestige and political influence. This strategy became more significant, when the British and Russian superpowers opposed an active French presence in Iran and prevented France from asserting influence in the country. To contain those powers, France pursued its plan of reaching a trade treaty with Iran as a means of obtaining commercial concessions and privileges as well as to secure its permanent presence in the country. France also aimed to connect Iran to its network of regional trade extending from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.

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Álvaro da Costa’s journey to Persia and Turkey (1611), the ruins of Babylon, and the riddles of globalization

Bermejo

2023

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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This article analyzes Álvaro da Costa’s return trip from the Estado da Índia to Lisbon in 1611. The constraints of Costa’s travel allow us to discuss some common assumptions about the character and spirit of early modern travelers and to illustrate some of the limits of travelers’ observations and the peculiar modes of knowledge they displayed. Reading through the many misunderstandings and apparent mistakes that Costa introduced in his Tratado da viagem, the article also explores the complex dynamics of “discovery” and argues that early modern globalization must be understood as a manyfold process. Individuals not only disposed of different information, but they also used very diverse frameworks to interpret and make sense of such information. The article contrasts Costa’s use of older but resilient interpretative frameworks with more modern and more accurate interpretations and shows that very different perceptions about world connections coexisted during the early modern age. In particular, the article focuses on how Costa actively combined his observations of the ruins of Babylon and other cities he found on his route with previous paradigms of universal history, such as biblical theories on the historical succession of empires.

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From Splendour and Admiration to Ruin and Condescension: Western Travellers to Iran from the Safavids to the Qajars

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

From the Field to the Bookshop. Shaping Persepolis in the Early 18th century

From the Field to the Bookshop. Shaping Persepolis in the Early 18th century

France among the Most-Favored Nations: The French Commercial Policy and Influence in Iran (1815–48)

Álvaro da Costa’s journey to Persia and Turkey (1611), the ruins of Babylon, and the riddles of globalization

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