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IRAN
AND THE WORLD IN THE SAFAVID AGE
Abstracts
Bernardini, Dr.
Michele, Istituto
Universitario Orientale, Napoli
, The
Conquest of Jarun by the Portuguese (1031/1622) in a FATHNAME kept
in the Estense Library of Modena
The
manuscript F.6.22 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Estense of Modena,
contains a Fathname concerned with the Portuguese-Persian conflict
over Jarun (Hormuz) in 1031/1622.
It is probably a work of Qadri Shirazi who is the author of
two other Fathnames. While
the history of the manuscript itself is of considerable
significance - it was acquired by Pietro della Valle in around
1628 - the text provides important evidence of events in a form
continuing, if on a smaller scale, the tradition of the masnavis
dedicated to the Safavid rulers.
The paper will provide an introduction to this kind of
composition and will give a more extensive presentation of the
factual content of the Fathname, with an analysis of Portuguese-Safavid
relations during the period and some observations concerning the
Persian Gulf as a strategic area during the seventeenth century.
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