{"id":489,"date":"2017-07-18T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T10:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2017-09-01T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:45:21","slug":"coffee-in-isfahan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/illuminating-objects-home\/queen-anne-silver-coffee-pot\/coffee-in-isfahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee in Isfahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee (<em>qahvah<\/em>, in Arabic and Persian,\u00a0<em>kahve<\/em>\u00a0in Turkish) was a major agricultural product of Yemen and Arabia, which found new markets after their conquest by the Ottomans in the early 16th century. Through contact and trade with its eastern neighbours, coffee was exported from Ottoman lands to modern Iran (Persia), becoming well established there by the end of the century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-490\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/coffee-in-isfahan-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-490\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/coffee-in-isfahan-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/coffee-in-isfahan-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/illuminating-objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2017\/07\/coffee-in-isfahan-500-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isfahan\u2019s Royal Square, Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan as seen by Dutch painter and traveller Cornelis de Bruyn in 1714. Image Credit: Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton University Press, 2005), p. 149.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the end of the 16th century, coffeehouses were a vital aspect of the Safavid dynasty\u2019s capital Isfahan in modern Iran. 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