Roman traveler and humanist Pietro Della Valle spent the years 1617–22 in Safavid Iran. At the court of Šāh Abbās I, he advocated for political alliances against the Ottomans and the establishment of a Catholic center (Nuova Roma di Oriente). He wrote a polemic in Persian responding to contentious interreligious debates, presented here in translation accompanied by a commentary as a source that can be used to analyze Catholic-Shiite positionings.
Catherina Wenzel
Entangled history Interreligiöse Beziehungen Transreligiöse Beziehungen Religionsgespräche religiöse Polemik Entangled history interreligious relations transreligious relations religious dialogues religious polemics