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Talk: A Safavid Text Adapted for Ottoman Sensibilities: The Istanbul Manuscript of the Tuḥfah-i Sāmī – Theodore Beers

Oct 02, 2021 | 10:35 AM

Conference organized by Philip Bockholt and Sacha Alsancakli: "Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualizing Ideological Variants in Persian Texts from the 11th to 19th Centuries." Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. 

The conference was postponed from April 2020.

Theodore S. Beers presents on an interesting manuscript of the Tuḥfah-i Sāmī, a Persian anthology of poets (taẕkirah) written in the tenth/sixteenth century. While the author, Sām Mīrzā (d. 975/1567), was a prince of the Safavid dynasty in Iran, one of our earliest and best manuscripts of the text was copied in Istanbul. This gives us an opportunity to revisit some of our preconceived ideas about cultural exchange between the Safavid and Ottoman realms.

Conference programme see here.

Time & Location

Oct 02, 2021 | 10:35 AM

Leipzig University

Keywords

  • Safavids, Ottomans, manuscripts, Persian literature, textual transmission