Second International CSIC Conference

Missionaries in the Safavid World

Madrid, 10-11 March 2016
Venue Menéndez Pidal Lecture Hall
Instituto de Historia, CCHS-CSIC
C/Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid

Programa

Organized by:

• Enrique García Hernán (CSIC)
• José Cutillas Ferrer (University of Alicante)
• Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware)
• Consejo Ibero-Safavid de Estudios Históricos. Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC. Departamento de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea. Grupo de Investigación Conformación de Fronteras

With the support of:

• Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Project HAR2015-64574-C2-2P. Universidad de Alicante, Instituto Polaco de Cultura
• Comisión Española de Historia Militar. Albatros Edicionesand Consejería Cultural de la Embajada de la R.I. de Irán

Honorary Presidency:

• Luis Gil
• Carlos Alonso OSA

Scientific Committee:

• Enrique García Hernán, CSIC
• José Cutillas Ferrer, University of Alicante
• Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware
• Rui Loureiro, CHAM-FCSH/NOVA-UAc, Portugal
• Jorge Flores, European University Institute, Florence
• Carlos Martínez Shaw, UNED, Spain

Secretary:

• Phillip Williams (CEHISMI)

Invited Lectures:

• Ignacio Matalobos (CEHISMI)
• Beatriz Alonso Acero (CEHISMI)
• Angel Alloza (CSIC)
• Óscar Recio Morales (Complutense University)
• Igor Pérez Tostado (Pablo de Olavide University)
• Ernest Kowalczyk (Instituto Polaco de Cultura)
• Miguel Ángel de Bunes (CSIC)
• Isaac Donoso (Universidad de Alicante)
• Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi (The Shi’ah Institute of London)
• Safura Borumand (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Tehran, Iran)

10 MARCH

9.30 Opening and welcome
Prof. Consuelo Naranjo, Director IH
Prof. Francisco Fernández Izquierdo, IH
Col. Ignacio Matalobos, CESEDEN
Mr. Alireza Esmaeili, Consejero Cultural de la Embajada de la R.I. de Irán

Presentation of the new book, THE SPANISH MONARCHY AND SAFAVID PERSIA IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. POLITICS, WAR AND RELIGION, edited by Enrique García Hernán, José Cutillas and Rudi Matthee

10.00 Chair. Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi (The Shi’ah Intitute of London)

• Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), The French Jesuit Missionary Jean-Baptiste de la Maze (1624-1709) and His Description of Shirvan
• Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London), Missionary Effects-Imperial Implications: The Shah Abbas Bible
• Dennis Halft OP (Free University in Berlin), Missionaries as Intermediaries: The Arrival of Arabic Bible Translations in Safavid Persia and their Imami Reception

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 Chair. Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware)

• Giorgio Rota (Institut für Iranistik Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), The Mission of Father Felice Maria da Sellano to the Court of Persia, 1699-1702
• Rui Loureiro (CHAM, Lisboa), The Persian Travels of Gaspar de Sao Bernardino (1606-1607)
• Joao Teles e Cunha (IEO-FCH/Universidade Católica Portuguesa CHAM-FCSH/UNL-UAç), Tilling the Vine of the Lord: Portuguese Missionary Strategies in Safavid Iran ca. 1550-1600
• Enrique García Hernán (CSIC), The Dominicans in Salamanca and the Safavid World

14.00 Lunch

15.30 Chair. Phillip Williams (CEHISMI)

• Stanislaw Jaskowski and Dariusz Kolodziejczyk (University of Warsaw & Polish Academy of Sciences), Some Comments on the Manuscript known as Asnad-e Paderiyan-e Karmeli from the National Library in Naples
• Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska (University of Warsaw), The Northern Caucasus viewed by the Catholic Missionaries in the Years 1625 – 1724
• Emilio Sola (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), La Persia de los Safávidas en los avisos mediterráneosde Levante del siglo XVI
• José M. Floristán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), La empresa de Grecia en el marco de la política oriental de Felipe III

11 MARCH

10.00 Chair. Oscar Recio Morales (Complutense University)

• José Cutillas Ferrer (Universidad de Alicante), The Carmelite Missionary Prospero del Espíritu Santo, 1583-1653
• Mohsen Bahram Nezhad (Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin), A Message of Shah Mohammad Khodabandeh to the Wise of Farang: Report of a Letter to the King of Spain, Philip II
• Nozhat Ahmadi (University al-Zahra, Tehran), Shah Abbas and the Comings and Goings of the Carmelites

11.30 Coffee Break

12.00 Chair. José Cutillas (University of Alicante)

• Mohsen Jafari Mazhab (Archives Research Center, ARC, – National Library and Archives of IRAN, NLAI), Some Islamic-Persian Influences on a European Missionairy: The Persian Seal of Père Raphael du Mans
• Mohammad Noormohammadi Najafabadi and Hosein Bayatloo (Imam Khomeyni International University of Qazvin, Iran), Two Faces of Power Centers (Court and Scholars) Confrontation with Christian Missionaries in the Safavid Period
• Luis Gil (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), El primer iranista español: fr. Juan Tadeo de Sant’Eliseo

13.30 Closing remarks by Rudi Matthee

By admin in Noticias on 21 febrero, 2016