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SUMMARY:Safavid and Mughal Empires in Contact: Intellectual and Religious 
 Exchanges between Iran and India in Early Modern Period
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DESCRIPTION:The workshop will investigate intellectual and religious conta
 cts in and between Safavid Iran and Mughal India in the 16th and 17th cent
 uries. In the early modern period\, Iran and North India witnessed fundame
 ntal cultural changes which profoundly formed their new identity. The rule
 rs of Iran at the time\, the Safavids (1501-1722)\, proclaimed Shīʿī Is
 lam as the state religion\; The Mughal emperors (1526-1858) fostered an en
 vironment in India\, where Islam\, Hindu-religions\, Christianity and Zoro
 astrianism came more intensively in dialogue. Not only numerous syncretist
 ic trends arose from these entangled situation\, but the contacts impacted
  the respective religions as well. Moderated Indian rulers invited for exa
 mple the representatives of different religions to the court to dispute. T
 hey moreover supported translations of the Sanskrit religious texts into P
 ersian which were received in Safavid Iran as well. One might mention the 
 Persian translation of Upanishads in this period which found its way to Eu
 rope and resulted in the acquaintance of the Europeans with this philosoph
 ical work. The open religious environment of Mughal India was for Iranian 
 intellectuals so attractive that many of them traveled or even migrated to
  India. It was due to these migrations that scholastic teachings of Islami
 c theology started in major cities of India. These interactions between Sa
 favid Iran and Mughal India enhanced the religious and intellectual though
 ts between the two lands and in-between. It is in-between of these two rel
 igious zones where some new syncretistic philosophical and religious movem
 ents as Āẓar Keywānīs should be located. Moreover\, the religious act
 ivities at one of these courts seem to have been animated by the other. Sc
 rutinizing these topics are the goals of this proposed workshop.\n\nProgra
 mme
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/kianoosh-khk-workshop-jun2018/
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