{"id":570,"date":"2012-08-18T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/?p=570"},"modified":"2012-08-18T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T15:49:06","slug":"ottoman-persian-exchanges-16th-20th-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudieslibrary\/ottoman-persian-exchanges-16th-20th-centuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottoman-Persian Exchanges, 16th \u2013 20th Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Middle East<\/span> Center at the University of Pennsylvania is putting out a call for papers on cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual exchanges between the Ottoman and Persian empires 16th through 20th centuries for a day-long symposium to be held in Friday, 26 April 2013 to be held at the University of Pennsylvania. Championing different expressions of Islam and sharing a long and turbulent border, the Ottoman and Persian empires rivaled each other since the rise of the Safavid state in Persia in the 16th century until the fall of Qajars and the Ottoman dynasties at the turn of the 20th century. This regular contact produced rich historical encounters between the two states.<\/p>\n

Traditional historiography had portrayed the Ottoman and Persian histories as a narrative of struggle against European encroachment and attempts at \u201cmodernization\u201d that derived inspiration from Europe since the early 19th century. Until recently, such a portrayal had overlooked the rich historical interactions between the two empires, including but not limited to trade, smuggling, pilgrimage (or religious tourism), intellectual exchanges, nomadic border tribes, and expatriate communities that inhabited the Ottoman-Iranian territories.<\/p>\n

The symposium hopes to bring together scholars working on issues at the intersection of Ottoman and Persian relations to shift the focus of the debate to the east<\/span>ern fault line of Middle East<\/span>ern history and to shed light on the historical interactions between the two empires, which governed almost the entire Middle East<\/span> up until the end of World War I. Please submit your abstracts (300 words maximum) by 1 November 2012 . Selected scholars will be contacted in December 2012, and Penn\u2019s Middle East<\/span> Center will publish the papers presented in the symposium as an edited volume.<\/p>\n

Possible topics may include the following:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Territorial claims and counter-claims
\n\u2022 Ethnic and religious minorities in national boundaries
\n\u2022 Tribal dynamics and religious tensions
\n\u2022 Comparative gender issues
\n\u2022 Cultural and literary nationalism
\n\u2022 Great power rivalries in the 19th century (British, Ottoman, Russian, and Persian ambitions)
\n\u2022 Social and economic consequences of oil
\n\u2022 Trade patterns and economic development<\/p>\n

All communication and abstracts should be submitted to this email: iranveturan@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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