Iran under the Safavids

Name: Iran under the Safavids
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ISBN: 9780521042512

ISBN-10: 0521042518

ISBN-13: 9780521042512

Edition: 2007

Authors: Roger M. Savory

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The importance of the Safavid period (15011736) in Iranian history has been increasingly recognised. Iran Under the Safavids aims at providing the student and general reader, in non-technical language, with a comprehensive history of the Safavid dynasty. Professor Savory considers the origins of the Safavid family, the course of the revolutionary movement which brought it to power and the problems facing Shah Ismail I after the establishment of the Safavid state in 1501. He describes the development of a multi-racial society in Iran during the sixteenth century, the policies of Shah Abbas I which brought the Safavid state to the height of its power and prosperity, and the reasons for its…

Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



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Map


Acknowledgements



The Lords of Ardabl



Theocratic state: the reign of Shh Isml I (1501-1524)



Internal dissensions and external foes: the Safavid state from 1524 to 1588



The Safavid empire at the height of its power under Shh Abbs the Great (1588-1629)



Relations with the West during the Safavid period



The flowering of the arts under the Safavids



Isfahn is half the world - Shh Abbss Isfahn



The social and economic structure of the Safavid state



Intellectual life under the Safavids



Decline and fall of the Safavids


Notes


Index