On January 20, 1609, in the streets of Madrid, swords clashed between an Iranian convert to Christianity and one of Spain’s rising literary talents. The violence left Don Diego de Persia (formerly Bunyad bey, a secretary from Shah Abbas I’s embassy to Europe) with life-threatening facial and chest wounds. Seven years after his baptism with … Oxumağa dava et A Safavid warrior’s quest to be a Knight in Habsburg Spain