{"product_id":"the-ottoman-empire-and-safavid-iran-1639-1683-diplomacy-and-borderlands-in-the-early-modern-middle-east-9781399510103","title":"The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639-1683: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003eOttoman-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. \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelim Güngörürler is assistant professor of early modern history at Marmara University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRepercussions of the Austro-Russian-Turkish War (1736-1739) on the Diplomacy and International Status of the Ottoman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). He has worked as project principal researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Iranistik (2020-4), and previously as postdoctoral fellow at Koç University ANAMED (2018-19), as postdoctoral researcher at Boğaziçmi University (2016-18), and as teaching and research assistant at Georgetown University (2011-16). He has also published articles in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eItinerario\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), \u003ci\u003eTurkish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eTurcica\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eArchivum Ottomanicum\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association\u003c\/i\u003e(2024); book chapters \u003ci\u003eHistoricizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50510210892050,"sku":"9781399510103","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31b02fea-fe9e-47a9-973f-d9d5f1edb496.jpg?v=1730919556","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-ottoman-empire-and-safavid-iran-1639-1683-diplomacy-and-borderlands-in-the-early-modern-middle-east-9781399510103","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}