Qazwin City during the Safavid Period

International Seminar
http://www.qazvinsafavid.ir/
The age-old city of Qazvin is erected in a vast land with a background of ten millennia of dwelling place and contained in itself a great deal of eminent works that belong to the far millennium. This city enjoyed a special place in the Safavid era and was the capital of the Safavid empire.
The rapid development of the region and considerable changes in the fields of architecture and urbanism along with the advent of various schools of thought, jurisprudence, art, science and literature made the Qazvin city of Safavid era as the centre of political and intellectual activities and attracted the attention of many historians ,tourists and researchers of the culture and history of Iran toward itself .
The organizers of the International Congress on Qazvin in Safavid era hope to provide an opportunity for the esteemed Iranologists and researchers in order to explore this period of the history of Iran once again and present the achievements of their academic studies and researches to those who are interested in culture and virtue .

The Main Themes of the Congress:
• Qazvin, the throne place of the Safavids
• Qazvin in the time of the rise and decline of the Safavids
• Architecture and urbanism in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Historiography of Qazvin in Safavid period
• Persian literature in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Art in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Economics of Qazvin in Safavid period
• Science and Islamic science in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Social institutions in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Elites of Qazvin in Safavid period
• Folklore culture and ethnology of Qazvin in Safavid period
• Qizilbash (redheads) in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Foreign ambassadors and tourists in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Religious minorities in Qazvin in Safavid period
• Bibliography of Qazvin in Safavid period

The Academic Board:
1. Dr Mohammad Ehsai
2. Dr Ehsan Eshraghi
3. Dr Ebrahim Parizi
4. Dr Rasul Jafariyan
5. Dr Abdul Rasul Khayrandish
6. Dr Mahdi Zandiyyeh
7. Dr Reza Shabani
8. Dr Ali Asghar Musaddeq
9. Dr Qasim Ansari
10. Dr Nasir Takmil Humayun
11. Dr M.Dabir Siyagi
12. Dr Rahim lu
13. Mehdi Mujabi
14. Dr Mehrangiz Mazaheri
15. The Academic Board of The Department of History, Imam Khomeini International University
Note on the Papers:
The papers should be methodic, innovative and analytic along with references to the authentic sources. The abstracts should not be more than 2 pages of A4 in Persian and English languages in XP word 2000. The papers should be sent to the secretariat of the Congress and the accepted ones in maximum twenty pages should be sent to the secretariat of the Congress till 22 the September 2006 . It is necessary to write down postal address, telephone and fax numbers at the end of the papers.
Meanwhile the deadline for sending the abstract for the Congress is extended to the 20th July 2006
Address:
Qazvin
Imam Khomeini International University,
The Central Library
Tel – Fax: +98 (0281) 378 6576
E-Mail : info@qazvinsafavid.ir