Berkeley Lecture Series Presents:
A Talk by Professor Rudi Matthee
Topic:
Iran and the Christian Missionary Experience in the Safavid Period: Between Tolerance and Refutation.
Place: 170 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019
Time: 4 PM – 7 PM
Rudolph (Rudi) Matthee is John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the President of the Persian Heritage Foundation.
Professor Matthee teaches Middle Eastern history, with a research focus on early modern Iran and the Persian Gulf. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He wrote The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999), and The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900, (2005); co-edited, with Beth Baron, Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000); and co-edited, with Nikki Keddie, Iran, and the Surrounding World, 1501-2001: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics (2002).
His latest books are The Spanish Monarchy and Safavid Persia in the Early Modern Period: Politics, War and Religion, edited with Enrique García Hernán and José Cutillas Ferrer (Madrid: Albatros Ediciones, 2016) and Russians in Iran, Diplomacy and the Politics of Power in the Qajar Era, edited with Elena Andreeva (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018).