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ANA PAULA AVELAR: Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), researcher at CHAM (NOVA FCSH—UAc). She has integrated several national and international projects, subsidized by the European Union. She is the author of several books and essays on History Studies, Asian Studies and Portuguese Culture, some of them published in indexed magazines. Among her books stand out Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, cronista do governador Nuno da Cunha? (Cosmos, 1999), Visões do Oriente - formas de sentir do Portugal do século XVI (Colibri, 2002), Figurações da Alteridade na cronística da Expansão (UAb, 2003), D. João III- O Piedoso (APH, 2009), D. Luísa de Gusmão-A rainha mãe (APH, 2011). She teaches at undergraduate and graduate courses, and has supervised numerous thesis and dissertations. She has been Visiting Professor at several universities, and she is a member of national scientific academies. She is working now at the critical edition of Fernão Lopes de Castanheda’s History.

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SUSSAN BABAIE: Professor of the history of art and architecture at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is the author of Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (2008), and co-author and editor of several books including The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries (2017), Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis (2014), Shirin Neshat (2013), and Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (2004). She is working on a book about the intersections between visual and gustatory taste in early modern Iran.

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MICHELE BERNARDINI: Full professor of Persian Language and Literature and History of Iran and the Ottoman Empire at the Universita degli Studi di Napoli l'Orientale. Presently he is the dean of the Department Asia, Africa and Mediterranean at this University. He founded the journal Eurasian Studies and published various books on the Timurid and Safavid periods. His work is particularly devoted to the interaction between Turks and Persians in Iran, Anatolia and Central Asia.

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ANGELO CATTANEO: PhD from the European University Institute, in Florence, he is currently FCT researcher at CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research is centred on the cultural construction of space in the period from the 12th to the 17th centuries. Among his many research titles, one may find the monograph Fra Mauro’s Mappa mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice (Turnhout, 2011) and the collective volume The Space of Languages: The Portuguese Language in the Early Modern World (Lisbon, 2016).

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JOÃO TELES E CUNHA: Is an auxiliary professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University, and member of CHAM (Centre for the Humanities) FCSH-UNL/UAç, whose research on the field of Safavid studies has the following titles: Olha da grande Pérsia o império nobre. Relações entre Portugal e a Pérsia na Idade Moderna (1507-1750), (Teheran, 2014); ‘The eye of the Beholder: The Creation of a Portuguese Discourse on Safavid Iran’ in Portugal, in The Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia, edited by Rudi Matthee and Jorge Flores, (Leuven/Washington, 2011), pp. 11-50; ‘The Portuguese presence in the Persian Gulf’, in The Persian Gulf in History, edited by Lawrence G. Potter, (New York, 2009), pp. 207-234.; ‘Portugal. Relations with Persia in the Early Modern Age’, in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online, 2009, in www.iranica.com

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DEJANIRAH COUTO: Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Sorbonne, Paris.  Originally a Byzantinist, she is a member of the research team of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, EA 4116, Savoirs et Pratiques du Moyen-Âge à l’Epoque Moderne. She is currently associate researcher at the Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes de Istanbul and Vice-president of the   International Association of Maritime Studies (Piri Reis University, Istanbul). She has published extensely on the relations between the Portuguese, the Ottomans, the Safavids and the political powers of the Indian Ocean. She is a recipient of the award «Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques» of the French Republic (2015).

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JOSÉ CUTILLAS FERRER: He studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Universidad de Alicante and Psychology at the Universidad de Valencia, Spain. In 2002-2005 he lived for three semesters in Iran as an visiting lecturer. In 2002 he received his PhD in Islamic Studies from the Universidad de Alicante. Since 1997 he has been teaching at the Universidad de Alicante, where he is Associate Professor of Cultural History of Iran and Persian Language. He is one of the coordinators of the Consejo Ibero Safaví de Estudios Históricos. From his bibliography: Crónica y relación de la esclarecida descendencia Xarifa (Alicante, 1998) and La vida de Buda. El Kitab Bilawhar va Budasf (Barlaam y Josafat) según la versión persa del s. XVII (Alicante, 2006).

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LUIS GIL: Full Professor of Greek Philology at the universities of Valladolid, Salamanca and Complutense de Madrid, he is Emerit Professor of this last one since 1992. He is a widely acclaimed international scholar, author of a vast bibliography in the fields of Philology and History. Among his many publications about Iberian-Safavid relations, two are especailly worthy of mention: Epistolario diplomático de García de Silva y Figueroa (Badajoz, 1989) and El Imperio luso-español y la Persia Safávida (Madrid, 2007-2009), which received the Prémio Nacional de Historia de Espanha in 2007.

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ANASTAZJA GRUDNICKAL: Graduated of the University of Cambridge, she iscurrently «Wolfson Scholar in early modern cultural history» at the University College London.

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ISAAC DONOSO JIMÉNEZ: Doctor in Islamic Studies (2011) by the University of Alicante (Spain), and also Master of Arts in Islamic Studies by the University of the Philippines (2008). Winner in 2004 and 2008 of the research prize Ibn al-Abbar. He edited the seminal volumes More Hispanic than We Admit. Insights into Philippine Cultural History (2008), and Historia cultural de la lengua española en Filipinas: ayer y hoy (2012). He authored Islamic Far East: Ethnogenesis of Philippine Islam (Manila, 2013). He currently teaches at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is editor of the Revista Filipina.

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RUI MANUEL LOUREIRO: PhD in History from the Universidade de Lisboa, he is a researcher at CHAM (Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and also a member of the Portuguese  Academia de Marinha. Specializing in the history of Iberian contacts with Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, he has published over one hundred academic studies in the particular area. Within Iberian-Safavid studies, he his co author, with Dejanirah Couto, of Ormuz – Conquista e Perda (Lisbon, 2007) and Revisiting Hormuz (Wiesbaden, 2008), as well as the coordinator of the recent critical edition, in 4 volumes, of the Comentários da embaixada à Pérsia de Don García de Silva y Figueroa (Lisboa, 2011).

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RUDI MATTHEE: PhD in History from the University of California, he has been attached to the University of Delaware since 1993, and is presently «John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History». In 2002 and 2017 he was a «fellow» of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton. He is co-editor of Der Islam and co-editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Among many other studies on Iranian history, he is the author of: The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999), The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (2005) and Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan (2012).

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PEDRO MARQUES: Belongs to the graduate staff at the Directorate-General for Education, in Portugal, and is an integrated researcher at UNIARQ - Center of Archeology, Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, being part of the research group Interactions in Iron Age and Roman Times in Western Iberian Peninsula. He is also a member of the scientific committee of Instituto Prometheus. Doctor in Epigraphy, his areas of investigation are the pre-Roman and Roman epigraphy, Roman law, Egyptology, biblical archeology and travel literature.​

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HALIMA NAIMOVA: Independent reseacher, with a MA in Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies of  Saint-Petersburg State University, Postgraduation in Library and documentation science from the University of Lisbon. Currently a Librarian in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (hnaimova@fc.ul.pt). Her recent publications include: «Shahname – Livro dos Reis», in 500 anos das Relações entre Portugal e Ormuz” (forthcoming, March 2018); Memoir F.G. W. Struve (1793-1864)(2017); ПедроТейшейра (XVI-XVII.в.) – португальскийпутешественник, очевидец и первыйевропейскийпереводчик «Равзатас-сафо» («Садчистоты») персо- язычногоисториографа XV векаМирхонда. Иран-наме (2014; Ns. 1-2, V. 29-30); Estudos Orientais. Volume Comemorativo do Primeiro Decénio do Instituto de Estudos Orientais, 2002-2012. (2012).

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CARLA ALFERES PINTO: PhD in History of Art and Post-Doctoral Fellow at [no TIRAR] CHAM/NOVA attached to the research project «The Allure of Things. The Consumption of Artistic Objects by the Infantas and Queens of the Avis-Beja dynasty (1430-1577)» (SFRH/BPD/100597/2014).​ She is the author of sundry academic studies, namely in her field of specialization, the production and circulation of art, in European and imperial contexts, in the early modern period (16th and 17th centuries)​​​​.

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ALAIN SERVANTIE: Independent researcher, formerly with the European Commission. Since 2017 he coordinates the scientific committee of the network «European routes of Emperor Charles V». He has authored numerous titles on the history of Europe’s relations with Turkey, namely L’Empire ottoman dans l’Europe de la Renaissance (Leuven, 2005).

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JOSÉ ALBERTO TAVIM. PhD in Portuguese Studies by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, he is a researcher and a professor at the Centro de História, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. He is also na associate researcher at CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora. He is the author of more than 60 academic publications, among books, articles and papers. His most recent work, in collaboration with Filomena Barros and Lúcia Mucznik, is In Iberia Peninsula and Beyond: A History of Jews and Muslims (XV-XVIII centuries) (Cambridge, 2015). He is the co-editor of Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies, together with Filomena Barros.

 

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