Review of \u3cem\u3eA Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia: The Safavids and the Papal Mission of the 17th and 18th Centuries\u3c/em\u3e

[...]the work provides detailed information about missionary strategies, as a letter of 1665 from a Persian Carmelite to the general of the order in Rome makes clear: To confound Persian temerity accomplished persons are needed, for these people are very studious-they have infinite esteem for a Religious who can stand up to them (in argument) (1:448)