The Safavid world
"The Safavid World brings together thirty essays on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources. Examining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, an…
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- Full title :The Safavid world / edited by Rudi Matthee.
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"The Safavid World brings together thirty essays on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources. Examining the Safavids from their foundations in the fourteenth century to their relations with the rest of the world in the eighteenth century, this study is essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of the Safavid world and the history and culture of Iran and the Middle East"-- Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2022
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 741 pages) : : illustrations, maps.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1000392872, 9781000392876, 9781003170822, 100317082X, 9781000392890, 1000392899
- oclc:on1253291779
- LC Classification:DS292
- Dewey Decimal:955/.03
Table of Contents
The emergence of the Safavids as a mystical order and their subsequent rise to power in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Ayşe Baltacioğlu-Brammer -- Who really were the Kizilbash? / Ayfer Karakaya-Stump -- The rise of the Savafids as a political dynasty / Riza Yildirim -- Custodial politics and princely governance in sixteenth-century Safavid Iran / Colin Mitchell -- Beyond charismatic authority / Hani Khafipour -- Against all odds / Hirotake Maeda -- Safavid Iran from Shāh Safi to Shāh Soltān Hoseyn / Rudi Matthee -- Safavid historiography / Sholeh A. Quinn -- Continuing a legacy in times of change / Tilmann Trausch -- The Safavid court and government / Willem Floor -- The Safavid army / Willem Floor -- The economy / Willem Floor -- Trade in Safavid Iran / Willem Floor -- Coinage and the monetary system / Alexander V. Akopyan -- The status of women in Safavid Iran / Nozhat Ahmadi -- Sufi habitus and shari'a practitioners in late Safavid Iran / Rula Jurdi Abisaab -- Sufism in the Safavid period / Ata Anzali -- Vaqf in the Safavid period / Nozhat Ahmadi -- "In the rifts of history" / Vera B. Moreen -- The occult sciences in Safavid Iran and Safavid occult scientists abroad …
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