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Kabir” by the Safavid Safavid from the point
historian Iskandar Beg of view of Europeans.
Munshi. This work, which - “Travelogues of the
is a kind of “Safavid Venetians in Iran”, Zeno
General History” or (2002); it consists of 6
“Safavid Generality”, has travelogues, 5 of which
a special place among were written by 4
the readers of the Safavid Venetian ambassadors and
historical period, and this, one by an unknown
of course, has been merchant from the same
doubled by its translation. country. These people
This work is important came to Iran during the
book because it deals reign of Uzun Hasan,
with political, social, the founder of the Aq-
economic, cultural, artistic Qoyunlu dynasty and Shah
and commercial issues, Tahmasp, the second prince
and since most of the of the Safavid dynasty.
sources used by the The main mission of the
author are Western sources ambassadors was to provoke
or references, it can be Iran into a war with the
said that the author Ottomans and to prevent
wrote Safavid history from the development and
the perspective of strangers; expansion of the Ottoman
although Western historians Turks influence in Europe.
have also used Persian The reports of this
sources, it must be said group are a complete
that the reconstruction description of the court
of those Persian sources of Shah Tahmasp I. In
has been done in a their reports, they provide
Western style; so this interesting information
work is the history of about the regions and
countries of Iran, the
