Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire

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I.B.Tauris, 21 avr. 2006 - 281 pages
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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 Shi`ism 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.
 

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I have been more interested in non-fiction as of late. This was recommended to me by a Persian friend here when I expressed my frustration over not being able to find a solid book on ancient persian ... Consulter l'avis complet

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Page 153 - The 'Jewels of Wonder': Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran,
Page 250 - Contributors to the urban landscape. Women builders in Safavid Isfahan and Mughal Shajahanabad, in G.
Page 226 - Shi'i Clerics in Iraq and Iran, 1722-1780: The Akhbari-Usuli Conflict Reconsidered...
Page 174 - Towards a reconsideration of the "Isfahan school of philosophy" : Shaykh Baha'i and the role of the Safawid 'ulama, in Studio Iranica, xv (1986), 165-98; CE Bosworth, Baha' al-Din Mmi/f and his literary anthologies, Manchester 1989.
Page 153 - Shahnama, in G. Nashat and L. Beck (eds.), Women in Iran. From the rise of Islam to 1800, Chicago 1003, 170-86.
Page 163 - The Principal Offices of the Safavid State During the Reign of Isma'il I.
Page 32 - King are incredible, as they worship him not as a king but as a god, on account of his descent from the line of 'AH, the great object of their veneration...
Page 13 - My name is Shah Isma'il. I am God's mystery. I am the leader of all these ghazis. My mother is Fatima, my father is 'All; and eke I am the Plr of the Twelve Imams.
Page 153 - Dickson: Shah Tahmasb and the Uzbeks (The Duel for Khurasan with 'Ubayd Khan: 930-946/1524-1540).

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Andrew J. Newman is Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Persian in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

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