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During the reign of the Safavid Shāh ʿAbbās I (reg. 996-1038/1588-1629), Isfahan was the center of power, diplomacy and trade of Iran. Every year scores of diplomatic envoys and traders would make their way to the capital in pursuit of some political or commercial gain. The present collection of Persian letters and documents, whose originals are kept in the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III in Naples, gives a fine view of the major issues in international relations that ʿAbbās I had to deal with during most of his reign. The collection consists for the greater part of translations of documents from various European courts and religious bodies and authorities, prepared by the interpreters of the Carmelite mission in Isfahan. Among the subjects: the silk trade, Anglo-Spanish relations, the threat of the Ottomans, the importance of Russia in an alternative trade route to Europe, foreign access to Persiaʾs ports, and the interests of the Catholic church

1.: A - Afrasta. - 1377 h.s. = 1999. - 509 S. : Ill. - ISBN 964-90155-9-0.; 2.: Afrahi - Baihudi. - 1377 h.s. = 1999. - 544 S. : Ill. - ISBN 964-6798-01-2

Translation of the book " Silent soldier" of Brigadier Mohammad Yousaf on General Akhtar, his superior at ISI, who was killed in an aircraft crash in 1988, along with President Zia ; ʿAbdurraḥmān, Ak̲h̲tar, -- 1924-1988 ; Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989. ; Generals -- Pakistan -- Biography

The Ottoman biographer, historian and former career military officer Kātib Çelebi (d. 1067/1657), better known as Ḥājjī Khalīfa, completed his Taqwīm al-tawārīkh in Istanbul in 1058/1648. Begun as an excerpt of his earlier history Fadhlakat aqwāl al-akhyār , he expanded it to cover personalities and events up to the days in which it was written. Composed in a mixture of Ottoman Turkish and Persian, it became a popular 'desk reference' that received various upgrades by different eighteenth-century authors. The work was printed for the first time in Istanbul by İbrahim Müteferriqa in 1146/1733. The Taqwīm al-tawārīkh was translated into Latin, Italian and French, besides the anonymous Persian translation contained in this volume, completed in 1075/1664, well before any of the other translations. It is one of the rare historical works in Persian to have the form of a chronology, most of them being histories of dynasties or general histories

Harbors -- Iran -- History ; Būshihr (Iran : Province) -- History

Iran - History - To 640 ; Elam - History