Iranian / Persianate Subalterns in the Safavid Period
Their Role and Depiction: Recovering 'Lost Voices'
Edited by Andrew J. Newman
‘Subaltern studies’ refers to the importance of subordinate groups in the making of history, usually focusing social protest in response to manipulations by the elite. This book includes elite Persian diplomatic and political-economic materials, but also draws from cultural spheres such as art, cinema, architecture, literature and re
‘Subaltern studies’ refers to the importance of ‘subordinate’ groups in the making of history. The latter are usually defined as encompassing the urban and rural underclasses, the majority in any society, although generally the term is said to refer to all non-elites, including women. Most often the discourse concentrates on instances of social protest as points whereat the ‘subalterns’ make their ‘voices’ heard in response to, or even independent of, manipulations by the elite. The book draws on wide-ranging sources to be explored for direct and indirect access to these voices, and include elite Persian diplomatic and political-economic (court-level) materials but also those drawn from such a broad range of ‘cultural’ spheres as, for example, art and architecture (including cinema, for the modern period), prose, poetry and other media and religious materials (Sunni, Shi`i and Sufi) of all genres in all relevant languages. The overall project seeks also to explore attitudes toward the subaltern by the authors of these sources. Finally, the project aims also to identify problems in accessing/using the sources and questions/avenues for further research across Persianate history and, in the process, to establish an on-going network to chart pathways for further associated research projects and support for these.
Preface 1 Liberating the "Turkoman Prisoner": An Assessment of Bound Captives in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Persianate Works on Paper Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp 2 Agency and Fatalism in the Judeo-Persian Kitab-i sar guzasht-i Kashan Alberto Tiburcio 3 The Qizilbash in Anatolia after the 1630s: Sidelined and Estranged Selim Gungorurler 4 The Safavid Foundation Myth in the Subaltern Imagination Barry Wood 5 The Muharram Subaltern in the Safavid Period: "Thin Description" and the Limits of European Travel Accounts Babak Rahimi 6 The 'Visible Voice' or 'Vocal Visibility' of the Subalterns in Persianate Painting: The Safavid and Mughal Cases Valerie Gonzalez 7 A Subaltern Hero: The 1573 Execution of Sheikh Hamza Bali as Part of the 'Sunnitisation' of the Ottoman Empire Ines Asceric-Todd 8 Voices of the Caucasians at the Safavid Court: Life and Activities of Parsadan Gorgijanidze Hirotake Maeda About the Contributors
- Edited by Andrew J. Newman
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