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IRAN
AND THE WORLD IN THE SAFAVID AGE
Abstracts
Haneda,
Prof. Masashi, University
of Tokyo, Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo, Bandar
Abbas and Nagasaki: An Analysis of the Reaction of Safavid
Government to Europeans from the Comparative Point of View
The
aim of this paper is to discuss and reveal some characteristics of
the Safavid attitude toward Europeans overlooked so far, focusing
on Iran's most important port, Bandar Abbas.
By doing so, we will be able to understand new aspects of
Safavid perception of other countries and peoples.
The main points of our discussion will be as follows: the
location of European factories in Bandar Abbas, what was allowed
and what was not allowed to Europeans there, the manner of
reception of Europeans by the local officials on arrival, the way
the local government negotiated with Europeans, the question of
distinction between Europeans and other, 'Asian', people, etc.
In
order to demonstrate the Safavid characteristics more clearly, we
will take the case of Nagasaki as another example and compare it
with that of Bandar Abbas. Nagasaki was one of the most important ports in Japan in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
There, the commercial affairs of European companies,
especially the Dutch Company, as well as Chinese merchants, were
very prosperous. Its
situation may bear comparison with that of Bandar Abbas, with the
presence there of numerous Indian merchants along with Europeans.
The comparison is made possible and more effective by using
the sources of same character in both cases: the archives of the
European companies.
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