Travelling Across Cultures: Some Aspects of the Safavid Envoys’ Travels to Venice
Annali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale, 2023 The paper aims to explore the practical aspects of the Safavid envoys’ travels to Venice in the sixteenth and the first part of the seventeenth centuries.
Guliyev, Ahmad
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Gendered and Ethnic Captivity and Slavery in Safavid Persia: A Literature Review [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2021 The Safavid society’s approach to sexuality and gender has made it a reference for the “pre-modern” discourse, in which gender and sexuality manifest—in contemporary terminology—queerness and fluidity.
Ladan Rahbari
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Shirvān and its Role in the Russo-Safavid Trade and Diplomacy in the 16th Century [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History, 2020 The article deals with trade role of Shirvān in the diplomacy between the Muscovite Rus’ (or Russian Tsardom) and Safavid Empire in the 16th century. Shirvān as a historical and geographical area in the east of the South Caucasus (near The Caspian Sea ...
Lukas Rybar
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Muhammad Taqi al-Majlisi and Safavid Shi‘Ism: Akhbarism and Anti-sunni Polemic During the Reigns of Shah ‘Abbas the Great and Shah Safi [PDF]
, 2017 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.The rise of the Akhbari school in the Safavid period has been portrayed as a challenge to both the clerical power of the ʿulamaʾ and ...
Gleave, RM
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“Their Beastly Manner”: Discourses of Non-Binary Gender and Sexuality in Shi’ite Safavid Persia [PDF]
Open Cultural Studies, 2018 The Safavid dynasty ruled Persia between sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as a turning period in the political, social and religious trajectories of Persian history.
Rahbari Ladan
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Anthony Jenkinson’s Original Map as a Source on the History of the Safavid Empire
Turkuaz Uluslararası Türk Dünyası Bilimsel Araştırmalar Dergisi, 2022 This article examines the map called “Nova absolutaque Russiae, Moscoviae, et Tartariae descriptio” published in London in 1562 the author of which was a famous trader, diplomat and Queen Elizabeth I Tudor̓s official ambassador to the Safavid Empire ...
L. Gafar-zada
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National Conflict for Power at the Safavid Court (1501 – 1722)
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesAfter the establishment of the Safavid state (1501-1722), which was a radical Shiite military state, Iran experienced a fierce ethnic struggle for power, especially among the nations that supported the Safavid dynasty in establishing their state ...
Delzar Salih Sadiq
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Examination of the Quranic Narrative in the Safavid Historiography of Shah Ismail's Rise to Power [PDF]
قرآن فرهنگ و تمدن, 2023 The ascension of Shah Ismail Safavi (907-930 AH) and the establishment of the Safavid dynasty constitute one of the most significant events in Iranian history.
mahmoud mehmannavaz
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The Effect of Mithraism on Safavid Tangled-Fish Design Carpets [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2021 Carpets have undergone one of the stages of prosperity and richness during the Safavid period. In this historic period, the establishment of large royal workshops under the support of the Safavid government paved the way for the creation of beautiful ...
Hamid reza Avishi +2 more
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Social characteristics of clerics in the Safavid period (1501-1722) [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2022 Clerics played a pivotal role and influence in the educational, socio -governmental structure of the Safavid era. Therefore, in order to understand the social status of clerics, it is necessary to survey and specify general educational process and their ...
Mahdi Dehghani
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