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Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan centre of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves. Babayan highlights eight residents - from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat - who anthologised their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan.

Art, Safavid --- Manuscripts, Persian --- Anthologies --- History --- Iṣfahān (Iran) --- Iran --- Social life and customs --- Adab. --- Anthology. --- Friendship. --- Gender. --- Isfahan. --- Persianate. --- Safavid. --- Sexuality. --- Sufism. --- Urbanity.

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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world-both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires-astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.

Merchants --- Businesspeople --- History --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Commerce --- جلفا (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- New-Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Neu-Djoulfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Jolfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Nor Jugha (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Novai︠a︡ Dzhulʹfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- E-books --- History of Europe --- History of Asia --- anno 1500-1799 --- Isfahan --- Merchants - Armenia - History. --- Merchants - Armenia - History - Sources --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) - Commerce - History - Sources --- acapulco. --- amsterdam. --- armenia. --- armenian merchants. --- asian empires. --- commercial settlements. --- eurasian. --- european expansion. --- global trade. --- historical. --- history of commerce. --- imperial network. --- indian ocean. --- iran. --- isfahan. --- london. --- long distance trade. --- manila. --- mediterranean sea. --- mercantile communities. --- merchant life. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- new julfa. --- nonfiction. --- persian empire. --- silk merchants. --- trade networks. --- trading outposts. --- world history.