In the relatively nascent field of Deccani art history, the Bijapuri ruler Ibrahim `Adil Shah II (r. 1580-1627) has attracted substantial scholarly attention. Ibrahim ruled for nearly fifty years, and the largest corpus of extant Bijapuri art and architecture dates to his length…
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An analysis of Shahnameh miniatures produced during the Safavid Empire reveals that these images prescribed certain behaviors and convey a reinforcement of these behaviors towards women of the upper class. For Safavid Iran, the Shahnameh—an epic (story) of the mythology and hist…
This study attempts to explore the history of one of the largest, most prosperous and influential sees of the seventeenth century Armenian Church. Created in 1605 and centered in New Julfa, a suburb of Isfahan, the capital of Safavid Iran, for almost a century, the diocese of Ne…
This study operates from the understanding that diplomacy between 1501 and 1555 can shed light on not only political, but religious and administrative features of the ruling Iranian dynasty, the Safavids (1501-1722). Carving out a dynastic presence in the fractured post-Timurid …
This dissertation traces the evolution of premodern historical writing about Yazd, Iran, in order to explore the changing function and utility of local history writing as a key means of engagement in imperial affairs. Yazd had been an important intellectual, religious, and econo…
Iranian musical instruments played an integral role in the cultural landscape of the Safavid Court (1501–1722) and their presence in contemporary illustrated manuscripts draws attention to how music fared under the changing tempers of the Safavid shahs. Over the past century of …
The acoustical environments in Iranian architecture have been rarely studied as a contributing factor to forming their cultural identity. This research is intended to investigate the acoustical properties of some of the significant work of architecture that has remained from the…
The following study examines how aspects of Safavid Persia are portrayed in the work of Adam Olearius, the German Baroque scholar who accompanied an economic expedition sent by the small northern German duchy of Holstein-Gottorf to Persia from 1635-39. Olearius's early modern tr…
The Badayi' al-vaqayi' of Zayn al-Din Mahmud b. Abd al-Jalil Vasifi is an early sixteenth century memoir and historical work written from a unique perspective, that of a non-elite, well-educated member of what we might refer to as "the middle class". This dissertation will argue…
This dissertation explores the ways in which religious knowledge was produced and transmitted in Safavid madrasas, particularly in Isfahan, during the later Safavid period--from the reign of Shah Abbas II (1642-66) to the end of Shah Sult[dotbelow]an H[dotbelow]usayn's reign (16…
Islamic saint veneration is not generally known outside of the Islamic world, and is rarely discussed in textbooks on Islam. Practices of Islamic saint veneration can vary by region, and there is little English-language information on Islamic saint veneration as it is practiced …
Between the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the Shiite Safavids of Iran and the Sunni Ottomans of Turkey--two of the greatest Islamic empires in history--developed a complex relationship in which tenuous peace alternated with bloody conflict, often with dizzying speed. …