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Ottoman-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. The 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.

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On the background of earlier Ottoman-Safavid relations, Selim G�ng�r�rler discusses how three key geographical areas and 17th century periods of diplomatic endeavors kept up the 1639 peace of Zuhab despite warlords' frontier activities. Many hitherto unknown archival materials draw a detailed picture of the more peaceful attitudes of the two Islamic states towards each other. --Claudia R�mer, University of Vienna

On the background of earlier Ottoman-Safavid relations, Selim Güngörürler discusses how three key geographical areas and 17th century periods of diplomatic endeavors kept up the 1639 peace of Zuhab despite warlords' frontier activities. Many hitherto unknown archival materials draw a detailed picture of the more peaceful attitudes of the two Islamic states towards each other. --Claudia Römer, University of Vienna

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Selim Güngörürler is assistant professor of early modern history at Marmara University. He is the author of Repercussions of the Austro-Russian-Turkish War (1736-1739) on the Diplomacy and International Status of the Ottoman Empire (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 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2021), Itinerario (2021), Turkish Historical Review (2018), Turcica (2019), Archivum Ottomanicum (2020) and Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association(2024); book chapters Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire (2022).

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