Safavid Persia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safavid Persia write by C. Melville. This book was released on 1996-12-31. Safavid Persia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Safavids ruled Persia for nearly two and a half centuries. This study is divided into two sections, the first of which includes studies on the historiography and the religious politics of the period. The second section covers such subjects as trade, an
Safavid Iran
Safavid Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safavid Iran write by Andrew J. Newman. This book was released on 2012-04-11. Safavid Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Safavid dynasty, which reigned from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, links medieval with modern Iran. The Safavids witnessed wide-ranging developments in politics, warfare, science, philosophy, religion, art and architecture. But how did this dynasty manage to produce the longest lasting and most glorious of Iran's Islamic-period eras?Andrew Newman offers a complete re-evaluation of the Safavid place in history as they presided over these extraordinary developments and the wondrous flowering of Iranian culture. In the process, he dissects the Safavid story, from before the 1501 capture of Tabriz by Shah Ismail (1488-1524), the point at which Shiism became the realm's established faith; on to the sixteenth and early seventeenth century dominated by Shah Abbas (1587-1629), whose patronage of art and architecture from his capital of Isfahan embodied the Safavid spirit; and culminating with the reign of Sultan Husayn (reg. 1694-1722).Based on meticulous scholarship, Newman offers a valuable new interpretation of the rise of the Safavids and their eventual demise in the eighteenth century. "Safavid Iran," with its fresh insights and new research, is the definitive single volume work on the subject.
Iran and the World in the Safavid Age
Iran and the World in the Safavid Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran and the World in the Safavid Age write by Edmund Herzig. This book was released on 2012-09-15. Iran and the World in the Safavid Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation.
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires
Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires write by Charles Melville. This book was released on 2021-02-25. Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw the establishment of the new Safavid regime in Iran. Along with reuniting the Persian lands under one rule, the Safavids initiated the radical transformation of the religious landscape by introducing Imami Shi'ism as the official state faith and in this as in other ways, laying the foundations of Iran's modern identity. In this book, leading scholars of Iranian history, culture and politics examine the meaning of the idea of Iran in the Safavid period by examining contemporary experiences of both insiders and outsiders, asking how modern scholarship defines the distinctive features of the age. While sometimes viewed as a period of decline from the high points of classical Persian literature and the visual arts of preceding centuries, the chapters of this book demonstrate that the Safavid era was nevertheless a period of great literary and artistic activity in the realms of both secular and theological endeavour. With the establishment of comparable polities across western, southern and central Asia at broadly the same time, the book explores some of the literary and political interactions with Iran's Ottoman, Mughal and Uzbek neighbours. As the volume and frequency of European merchants and diplomats visiting Safavid Persia increased, especially in the seventeenth century, and as more Iranians recorded their own travel experiences to surrounding Muslim lands, the Safavid period is the first in which we can document and explore the contours of Iran's place in an expanding world, and gain insights into how Iranians saw themselves and others saw them.
The Persian Mirror
The Persian Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Persian Mirror write by Susan Mokhberi. This book was released on 2019-10-21. The Persian Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.
