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Author:   Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.500kg
ISBN:  

9780367773281

ISBN 10:   0367773287
Pages:   742
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Foundations 1. The emergence of the Safavids as a mystical order and their subsequent rise to power in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 2. Who really were the Kizilbash? a rethinking of the Kizilbash movement in light of new sources and research 3. The rise of the Safavids as a political dynasty: the revolution of Shāh Esmā‘il, founder of the Safavid state Part 2: History and Historiography 4. Custodial politics and princely governance in sixteenth-century Safavid Iran 5. Beyond charismatic authority: the crafting of a sovereign’s image in the public sphere 6. Against all odds: the Safavids and the Georgians 7. Safavid Iran from Shāh Safi to Shāh Soltān Hoseyn: stability and stasis 8. Safavid historiography: the place of the Safavids in Iranian history 9. Continuing a legacy in times of change: courtly historiography in the sixteenth-century Safavid world Part 3: Safavid Society 10. The Safavid court and government 11. The Safavid army: continuity and change 12. The Safavid economy 13. Trade in Safavid Iran 14. Coinage and the monetary system 15. The status of women in Safavid society Part 4: Religious Life 16. Sufi habitus and shari‘a practitioners in late Safavid Iran 17. Sufism in the Safavid period 18. Vaqf in the Safavid period 19. ‘In the rifts of history’: Iranian Jews in the Safavid era Part 5: Science, Art and Architecture 20. The occult sciences in Safavid Iran and Safavid occult scientists abroad 21. The mathematical sciences and medicine in Safavid Iran 22. Not all of the poets went to India: literary culture in Iran under Safavid rule 23. Deluxe manuscript production in the Safavid period 24. The Safavid ceramics industry 25. Safavid architecture Part 6: Safavid Iran and the World 26. Safavid relations with Muslim neighbors 27. The Kurdish frontier under the Safavids 28. Safavid Iran in the South Asian political imagination 29. Diplomatic relations between Safavid Iran and Europe 30. Portrait of a traveler in Safavid Iran: the frontispieces of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier’s Six voyages (1678-1726)

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Rudi Matthee is the John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Delaware. He works on the political and socioeconomic history of early modern Iran. He is the author of four prize-winning scholarly books and the co-editor of another five volumes.

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