Regali scandalosi tra Venezia, Costantinopoli e Isfahan

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_17836
dc.contributor.author	Arcak Casale Sinem
dc.title	Regali scandalosi tra Venezia, Costantinopoli e Isfahan
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	n 1599, Shah ʿAbbas sent an embassy to the Ottoman court with an excessively submissive letter and an unusual set of gifts: twenty‑four keys to fortresses he had conquered for the sultan ‘as his vassal’. The keys were returned to the ambassador the next day, according to a Venetian source, testifying to the diplomatic crisis they caused, for their number matched exactly with the Imams so venerated in Twelver Shiʿism. Scandalous gifts demonstrate how objects effectively participated in political negotiation. Victory was thus neither fully contingent on, nor contained in, winning battles, acquiring land, or securing the allegiance of people.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-02-21
dc.dateAccepted	2023-09-13
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-06-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-794-4/regali-scandalosi-tra-venezia-costantinopoli-e-isf/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-794-4/010
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-794-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Crisis
dc.subject	Diplomatic gifts
dc.subject	Exchange
dc.subject	Ottomans
dc.subject	Safavid dynasty
dc.subject	Shah Ismaʿil
dc.subject	Shah ʿAbbas
dc.subject	Sultan Selim I

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Regali scandalosi tra Venezia, Costantinopoli e Isfahan

Sinem Arcak Casale Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, University of Minnesota

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n 1599, Shah ʿAbbas sent an embassy to the Ottoman court with an excessively submissive letter and an unusual set of gifts: twenty‑four keys to fortresses he had conquered for the sultan ‘as his vassal’. The keys were returned to the ambassador the next day, according to a Venetian source, testifying to the diplomatic crisis they caused, for their number matched exactly with the Imams so venerated in Twelver Shiʿism. Scandalous gifts demonstrate how objects effectively participated in political negotiation. Victory was thus neither fully contingent on, nor contained in, winning battles, acquiring land, or securing the allegiance of people.

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Feb. 21, 2024

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Sept. 13, 2023

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June 23, 2023

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978-88-6969-794-4

Keywords: Safavid dynasty • Exchange • Ottomans • Crisis • Diplomatic gifts • Shah Ismaʿil • Sultan Selim I • Shah ʿAbbas

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