New Publication – Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction Recovering ’Lost Voices, edited by Andrew J. Newman

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce this new publication: Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period: Their Role and Depiction Recovering ’Lost Voices, edited by Andrew J. Newman. https://gerlachpress.com/9783959941525

Content:

Preface vii

1. Liberating the “Turkoman Prisoner”: An Assessment of Bound Captives in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Persianate Works on Paper 1 Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp

2. Agency and Fatalism in the Judeo-Persian Kitab-i sar guzasht-i Kashan 65 Alberto Tiburcio

3. The Qizilbash in Anatolia after the 1630s: Sidelined and Estranged 83Selim Güngörürler

4. The Safavid Foundation Myth in the Subaltern Imagination 99 Barry Wood

5. The Muharram Subaltern in the Safavid Period: “Thin Description”
   and the Limits of European Travel Accounts 117 Babak Rahimi

6. The ‘Visible Voice’ or ‘Vocal Visibility’ of the Subalterns in
   Persianate Painting: The Safavid and Mughal Cases 149 Valérie Gonzalez

7. A Subaltern Hero: The 1573 Execution of Sheikh Hamza Bali as
   Part of the ‘Sunnitisation’ of the Ottoman Empire 193 Ines Asceric-Todd

8. Voices of the Caucasians at the Safavid Court: Life and Activities
   of Parsadan Gorgijanidze 211 Hirotake Maeda

   About the Contributors 241