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Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran
2021The exceptional intellectual richness of seventeenth-century Safavid Iran is epitomised by the philosophical school of Isfahan, and in particular by its ostensible founder, Mir Damad (d. 1631), and his great student MullaSadra (aka Sadr al-Din Shirazi, d. 1636). Equally important to the school is the apophatic wisdom of Rajab ‘Ali Tabrizi that followed
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The Profile of a Convert in Safavid Iran
2020This chapter introduces the case of a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who converted to Islam in late seventeenth century Iran and worked as a court translator for the Shah, adopting the name of ʿAli Quli Jadid al-Islam. It situates his story within the broader context of conversion to Islam and of the history of Muslim-Christian relations in the ...
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The Emergence of the Ẕahabiyya in Safavid Iran
Journal of Sufi Studies, 2013Abstract This article revisits some aspects of the commonly accepted scholarly narrative about the early historical development of the Barzishābādi offshoot of the Kubrawi order in Safavid Iran, a Sufi community better known in later sources as the Ẕahabiyya.1 My research focuses primarily on eleventh/seventeenth-century ...
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The Role of Azerbaijani Turkish in Safavid Iran
Iranian Studies, 2013Turkic languages and dialects played a much more important role in Safavid Iran than is generally thought, while Azerbaijani Turkish in particular was widely spoken and written in Safavid Iran. It was not only the language of the court and the army, but it was also used in poetry, even by renowned poets who usually wrote in Persian.
Willem Floor, Hasan Javadi
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SAFAVID IRAN'S SEARCH FOR SILVER AND GOLD
International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2000Safavid Iran's foreign trade is usually described as the highly profitable export of silk to Europe. That is at best an incomplete description. One problem is that it focuses on only one side of the trade (exports) rather than looking at both sides.
Willem Floor, Patrick Clawson
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Safavid origins The Safavid dynasty traces its origins to a fourteenth-century Sufi order established in the northern Iranian city of Ardabīl, located in the province of Azerbaijan (see Map 5). Iran at this time was witnessing one of its not so uncommon periods of political fragmentation and decentralisation, and control of Ardabīl was in the hands ...
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Safavid origins The Safavid dynasty traces its origins to a fourteenth-century Sufi order established in the northern Iranian city of Ardabīl, located in the province of Azerbaijan (see Map 5). Iran at this time was witnessing one of its not so uncommon periods of political fragmentation and decentralisation, and control of Ardabīl was in the hands ...
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Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and Consumption
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1994Cet historique du cafe dans l'Iran de la dynastie Sefevide porte sur 2 points essentiels: -l'etude des routes maritimes du cafe vers les ports du Golfe Persique, et d'un point de vue general son commerce -l'examen des aspects socio-economiques et politiques du developpement de sa consommation.
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Merchants in Safavid Iran: Participants and Perceptions
Journal of Early Modern History, 2000AbstractWhen dealing with the domestic merchants of Safavid Iran, modern scholarship has largely confined itself to Armenians. But Armenians were by no means the only indigenous traders to engage in commercial and financial transactions. This article looks at Armenians along with the other merchant groups active in Iran's domestic trade-Jews, Banians ...
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