Explores how the longest peace of the early modern Middle East was established and consolidatedFurthers our understanding of peace-keeping and conflict settlement between Middle Eastern statesUnearths scattered and unknown source material, including Ottoman archival documents, extant Safavid documen...

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1. Verfasser:	Güngörürler, Selim (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
Schlagworte:	Islamic Studies HISTORY / Middle East / General
Online-Zugang:	DE-Aug4 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Explores how the longest peace of the early modern Middle East was established and consolidatedFurthers our understanding of peace-keeping and conflict settlement between Middle Eastern statesUnearths scattered and unknown source material, including Ottoman archival documents, extant Safavid documents, chronicles, histories, mission reports, travelogues, protocol registers, codifications and correspondence compilations, and European travelogues and mission reportsSheds light on the hitherto-overlooked dimensions of the early modern diplomacy of the Ottoman Empire in Asia as well as in EuropeIntroduces a new methodology to identify and grasp the early modern diplomatic practices in the Middle EastBrings to light half a century of international relations in the early modern Middle EastShows that lively engagement and innovative role in diplomacy should not be sought only in permanent missions; ad-hoc contacts could be equally sophisticated and contentfulOttoman-Safavid relations after 1639 have been dismissed as marginal and assumed not to have produced sufficient documentation to facilitate a study, wherefore the subject matter has lacked even an introduction providing basic facts, let alone a comprehensive treatment. This book establishes for the first time the mission exchanges, correspondence, negotiations, and borderland encounters by drawing on scattered and hitherto-untapped archival documents, chronicle entries, and travelogues by the Ottomans, Safavids, and Europeans. Working up the information unearthed thereby, it reconstructs the groundwork of these dealings, highlights trends, and contextualizes the facts.The book refutes the assumption that mid-seventeenth-century interstate scene of the Middle East was eventless, and documents how the parties in question intensively bargained, displayed goodwill, made demands, delivered threats, presented displays of might, asked for privileges as well as concessions, and brought in third parties to their relations, all within an unequal relationship in strength, hierarchy, order of precedence, ranks, and protocol
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781399510134
DOI:	10.1515/9781399510134