Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 10 Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600-1700) (History of Christian-muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History)

730 Pages·2017·6.336 MB·English

by  Thomas David

Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
History of Christian-Muslim Relations
Christian-Muslim A Bibliographical History
Relations
Volume 10. Ottoman and Safavid Empires
(1600-1700)
Editorial Board
Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham)
Sandra Toenies Keating (Providence College)
Edited by
Tarif Khalidi (American University of Beirut)
David Thomas and John Chesworth
Suleiman Mourad (Smith College)
Gabriel Said Reynolds (University of Notre Dame)
Mark Swanson (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
with Lejla Demiri, Emma Gaze Loghin,
David Thomas (University of Birmingham)
Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady,
Umar Ryad, Carsten Walbiner
Volume 32
Christians and Muslims have been involved in exchanges over matters of faith and morality
since the founding of Islam. Attitudes between the faiths today are deeply coloured by the
legacy of past encounters, and often preserve centuries-old negative views.
The History of Christian-Muslim Relations, Texts and Studies presents the surviving record
of past encounters in a variety of forms: authoritative, text editions and annotated transla-
tions, studies of authors and their works and collections of essays on particular themes and
historical periods. It illustrates the development in mutual perceptions as these are contained
in surviving Christian and Muslim writings, and makes available the arguments and rhetorical
strategies that, for good or for ill, have left their mark on attitudes today. The series casts light
on a history marked by intellectual creativity and occasional breakthroughs in communica-
tion, although, on the whole beset by misunderstanding and misrepresentation. By making
this history better known, the series seeks to contribute to improved recognition between
Christians and Muslims in the future.
A number of volumes of the History of Christian-Muslim Relations series are published
within the subseries Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History.
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Christian-Muslim Relations
A Bibliographical History
Volume 10. Ottoman and Safavid Empires
(1600-1700)
Edited by
David Thomas and John Chesworth
with Lejla Demiri, Emma Gaze Loghin,
Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady,
Umar Ryad, Carsten Walbiner
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2017
Cover illustration: The Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Saviour (Vank Cathedral), New
Julfa, Isfahan, built during the reign of Shah ʿAbbās I.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Christian Muslim relations : a bibliographical history / Edited by David Thomas and John
Chesworth, with Lejla Demiri, Emma Gaze Loghin, Claire Norton, Radu Păun,
Reza Pourjavady, Umar Ryad, Carsten Walbiner.
  p. cm. — (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, ISSN 1570-7350 ; v. 32)
 Includes index.
 ISBN 9789004345652 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Christianity and other religions—
Islam. 2. Islam—Relations—Christianity. 3. Christianity and other religions—Islam—
Bibliography. 4. Islam—Relations—Christianity—Bibliography.
 BP172.C4196 2009
 016.2612’7—dc22
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CONTENTS
Foreword  ....................................................................................................... vii
List of Illustrations  ...................................................................................... xi
List of Maps  ................................................................................................... xiii
Abbreviations  ............................................................................................... xiv
Claire Norton and Reza Pourjavady, Introduction: The Ottoman
and Safavid Empires in the 17th century  ............................................. 1
Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Christians in the Safavid Empire  .................. 21
Eugenia Kermeli, Christian communities under the Ottomans in
the 17th century  ......................................................................................... 35
A. Yunus Gencer, Ottoman influences on European music  ............... 43
Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1600-1700  ................................ 53
The Ottoman Empire  ................................................................................. 55
The Safavid Empire  ..................................................................................... 493
Index of Names  ............................................................................................ 693
Index of Titles  ............................................................................................... 703

FOREWORD
David Thomas
This volume of Christian-Muslim relations. A bibliographical History
(CMR 10) is one of the four that make up the history of relations between
Christians and Muslims in the 17th century according to the original
sources. CMR 10 focuses on works in the period 1600-1700 from the Muslim
Ottoman and Safavid Empires, and also from the Christian kingdoms of
Armenia and Georgia. These were all tightly linked together, with the
two Muslim empires, one Sunnī the other Shīʿī, constantly at war and
holding each other in less regard than they did the Western powers that
were interested in commercial and political links, and the two Christian
kingdoms repeatedly invaded by one or other of their larger neighbours. In
consequence, impacts and influences between them were pervasive. The
Christian and Muslim works produced within them show that prejudices
familiar from earlier times typically continued as integral elements in their
mutual attitudes, and that followers of the two faiths usually assumed
without question the other was misguided, wicked and morally corrupt.
Entries in the volume frequently picture Ottoman and Safavid rulers
cautiously feeling their way forward in talks with Western embassies
and resisting missionary efforts to promote Christianity, and document
Eastern Christians striving to maintain their faith and communal
identities under social and political pressure; this is particularly true
of the Armenians, whose many accounts of Christian men and women
heroically facing execution for their faith at the hands of Muslims are
intended to demonstrate that Christianity is right and also to give heart to
waiverers.
The intention of this CMR volume is to provide full accounts of
all the known works written by Christians and Muslims about one
another and against one another in this region during the course of the
17th century. As in earlier volumes, the editors have been assisted by many
new and established scholars, the majority writing at length and in detail
to produce a compilation that reflects the latest research and in some
instances takes it forward. This is especially true for entries concerning
works from Armenia and Georgia.
Like its predecessors, CMR 10 starts with introductory essays that treat
details of the political and religious situation in the 17th-century world
viii FOREWORD
in which the works concerned with Christian-Muslim relations were
written. Following these come the entries that make up the bulk of the
volume. The basic criterion has been to choose works written substantially
about or against the other faith, or containing significant information or
judgements that cast light on attitudes of adherents of one faith towards
the other. By their very nature, apologetic and polemical works are
included, while letters, religious treatises and works of travel and history
often contain details or insights that also qualify them. Everything that
contributes in any significant way towards building impressions about the
other appears here.
It should be admitted that, while this principle criterion is easily
applicable in many cases, it proves difficult in a number of instances. We
have therefore adopted an inclusive approach, especially with respect to
works that may contain only small though insightful details or only appear
to touch obliquely on relations. Another guiding principle is that inclusion
of works within this volume, like its predecessors, has been decided
according to the date of their author’s death, not the date when the works
themselves appeared, although within the sections of the volume the
entries are ordered as far as possible according to date. The adoption of
this approach has led to evident anomalies at either end, where authors
were mainly or almost entirely active in one century but did not die until
the beginning of the next, though while this may seem arbitrary, in many
instances so would the choice of any other procedure.
Each entry is divided into two main parts. The first is concerned with
the author, and it contains basic biographical details, an account of their
main intellectual activities and writings, the major primary sources
of information about them, and the latest scholarly works on them. A
small number of entries are concerned with groups of authors or works,
in which case they are situated in their place and time as appropriate.
Without aiming to be exhaustive in biographical detail or scholarly study,
this section contains sufficient information for readers to pursue further
points about authors and their general activities.
The second part of the entry is concerned with the works of the
author that are specifically devoted to the other faith. Here the aim is
completeness. A work is named and dated (where possible), and then
in two important sections its contents are described and its sources
identified, and then its significance in the history of Christian-Muslim
relations is appraised, including its influence on later works. There follow
sections listing publication details (manuscripts where known, and then
FOREWORD ix
editions and translations) and studies, both intended to be fully up to date
at the time of going to press.
With this coverage, CMR 10 provides sufficient information to enable a
work to be identified, its importance appreciated, and editions and studies
located. Each work is also placed as far as is possible together with other
works from the same region written at the same time, though this grouping
should be regarded as more a matter of organisational convenience than
anything else. Proximity between works in the bibliography is definitely
not an indication of any necessary direct relationship between them,
let alone influence (though this may sometimes be discernible). In this
period it is as likely that an author would be influenced by a work written
hundreds of miles away or hundreds of years before as by another from
their immediate locality or time.
The composition of CMR 10 has involved numerous contributors who
have readily and often enthusiastically agreed to write entries. Under
the direction of David Thomas, the work for this volume was led by John
Chesworth (Research Officer), Emma Gaze Loghin (Research Associate),
Sinéad Cussen (Project Assistant), all in the Birmingham office, Lejla
Demiri and Claire Norton (Ottoman Empire), Reza Pourjavady (Safavid
Empire), Radu Păun (South-Eastern Europe), Umar Ryad (Muslim
Arabic works) and Carsten Walbiner (Christian Arabic works). These are
members of a much larger team that comprises 25 specialists in total,
covering all parts of the world. Many other scholars from various countries
devoted their expertise, energy and time to identifying relevant material
in their specialist areas, and also to finding contributors and sharing their
expertise. Without their help and interest, the task of assembling the
material in this volume would have been much more difficult, if possible
at all. Among many others, special gratitude goes to Peter Cowe for writing
so many Armenian entries, to George Bournoutian, Dennis Halft, Rudolph
Matthee and Ovidiu Olar. In addition, Carol Rowe copy edited the entire
volume, Phyllis Chesworth performed the arduous task of compiling the
indexes, Louise Bouglass prepared the maps, and Alex Mallett provided
links with the staff editors at Brill. The CMR team are deeply indebted to
everyone who has contributed in any way, particularly Hirotake Maeda,
Donald Rayfield, Vlado Rezar and Thomas Welsford for their advice.
The project is funded by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research
Council of Great Britain, and this is acknowledged with gratitude.
While extensive efforts have been made to ensure the information in
the volume is both accurate and complete, in a project that crosses as