Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
Tuesday 30th April
Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC)
Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
In 1685 a diplomatic envoy of the Safavid Empire (Iran) embarked upon a journey across the Indian Ocean to Siam (Thailand). A relic of this journey is the travel or diplomatic account the Safīna-i Sulaimānī – the Ship of Sulaimān – written by the scribe of the Persian envoy Muhammad Rabī‘ at the end of the seventeenth century. In this talk Dr Arian explores the Safavid envoy’s politics of knowledge formation about the encounter with the Siamese and discusses the envoy’s knowledge production about the Siamese sovereign, court and kingdom, society, culture and religion, and how this was governed by the Safavid political order.
Date:
30 April 2024, 17:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Venue:
New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details:
Lecture Room 6, New College
Speaker:
Anahita Arian
Organising department:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser:
Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
Part of:
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Claire MacLeod
