Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 THE JALAYIRIDS, MUZAFFARIDS AND SARBADĀRS
- 2 TĪMŪR IN IRAN
- 3 THE SUCCESSORS OF TĪMŪR
- 4 THE TÜRKMEN DYNASTIES
- 5 THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 6 THE SAFAVID ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
- 7 EUROPEAN CONTACTS WITH PERSIA, 1350–1736
- 8 TRADE FROM THE MID-14TH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 9 SOCIAL AND INTERNAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
- 10 THE EXACT SCIENCES IN TIMURID IRAN
- 11 PERSIAN SCIENCE IN SAFAVID TIMES
- 12 RELIGION IN THE TIMURID AND SAFAVID PERIODS
- 13 SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS, PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 14 CARPETS AND TEXTILES
- 15 (a) TIMURID ARCHITECTURE
- (b) SAFAVID ARCHITECTURE
- 16 (a) THE PICTORIAL ARTS IN THE TIMURID PERIOD
- (b) THE ARTS IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 17 (a) PERSIAN LITERATURE IN THE TIMURID AND TÜRKMEN PERIODS (782–907/1380–1501)
- (b) HĀFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
- (c) PERSIAN LITERATURE IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 18 PERSIAN POETRY IN THE TIMURID AND SAFAVID PERIODS
- Bibliographies
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Maps
- References
7 - EUROPEAN CONTACTS WITH PERSIA, 1350–1736
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 THE JALAYIRIDS, MUZAFFARIDS AND SARBADĀRS
- 2 TĪMŪR IN IRAN
- 3 THE SUCCESSORS OF TĪMŪR
- 4 THE TÜRKMEN DYNASTIES
- 5 THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 6 THE SAFAVID ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM
- 7 EUROPEAN CONTACTS WITH PERSIA, 1350–1736
- 8 TRADE FROM THE MID-14TH CENTURY TO THE END OF THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 9 SOCIAL AND INTERNAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
- 10 THE EXACT SCIENCES IN TIMURID IRAN
- 11 PERSIAN SCIENCE IN SAFAVID TIMES
- 12 RELIGION IN THE TIMURID AND SAFAVID PERIODS
- 13 SPIRITUAL MOVEMENTS, PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 14 CARPETS AND TEXTILES
- 15 (a) TIMURID ARCHITECTURE
- (b) SAFAVID ARCHITECTURE
- 16 (a) THE PICTORIAL ARTS IN THE TIMURID PERIOD
- (b) THE ARTS IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 17 (a) PERSIAN LITERATURE IN THE TIMURID AND TÜRKMEN PERIODS (782–907/1380–1501)
- (b) HĀFIZ AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
- (c) PERSIAN LITERATURE IN THE SAFAVID PERIOD
- 18 PERSIAN POETRY IN THE TIMURID AND SAFAVID PERIODS
- Bibliographies
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Plate section
- Maps
- References
Summary
Although historians generally have regarded the Mongol irruption of the 7th/13th century into Persia and countries further to the west as an unmitigated disaster, this calamity may be taken as a starting point for this chapter because it in fact served one purpose that can be regarded as beneficial. The Mongol armies may have been motivated solely by lust for conquest and destruction, but even out of their evil sprang a positive development when they rent asunder the veil which had for so long shut off Persia and other Islamic countries from the West. For as a result of the Mongol invasions new contacts between the East and the West became established, though at first only slowly and with all the handicaps of much ignorance on both sides. As the pioneers in establishing this contact between East and West, such as William of Rubruck, the Polos, Marino Sanuto and Friar Odoric of Pordenone, all belonged to the period covered by the previous volume of this series, there is no need to say more here than to state that their achievements were of prime importance, since they showed the way for later travellers to follow. The East was no longer a closed book to the West, but as yet comparatively few pages had been turned. It must be borne in mind when studying the development of contact between Persia and the West that the “traffic” was not merely from West to East; there were also travellers in the opposite direction.
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