Religious Policies of the Safavids and its Outcome in the Development of the Endowments of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2018 By declaring Shia as the official religion of Iran, the Safavids used different tools to institutionalize and disseminate it. One of these tools was developing religious endowments.
Zahra Talaee
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Venice’s Knowledge of the Qizilbash – The Importance of the Role of the Venetian Baili in Intelligence-Gathering on the Safavids [PDF]
, 2022 While the subject of the Venetian espionage in the Ottoman empire has received scholarly attention, no attempt has been made to study the baili’s intelligence-gathering activities on Safavid issues in a systematic way.
Guliyev, Ahmad, Ahmad Guliyev
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Safavids in Venetian and European Sources [PDF]
, 2022 The emergence of the Safavid Empire in the early sixteenth century marked a significant change in the geopolitics of the Middle East. This momentous change coincided with the widening of Ottoman expansion eastward and the exploration by European powers ...
Ahmad Guliyev, Guliyev, Ahmad
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Revisiting the Question of Literary Patronage under the Early Safavids [PDF]
, 2022 This article reviews an old debate in Persian literary history, surrounding the judgment of early modern poetry and, in particular, the legacy of the Safavid dynasty, and argues that a few of the questions over which scholars once disagreed have not been
Beers, Theodore S.
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Historiography of Abdi Baig Shirazi in Takmalat Al Akhbar [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2014 Historiography of Safavids historians, is founded on basic principles that in rare period of time in the history of histiriography in Iran, we are faced with such an expansion in this area.
Mahdi Feizisakha
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Kadim, 2023 Based on a comparative analysis of the Ottoman and Muscovite diplomatic correspondence, this book presents a historical account of the North Caucasus peoples from 1555 to 1605, when Russia expanded into the region.
John Colarusso
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An Analysis of the Relationship between the Territorial Identity and the Social Legitimisation Elements in the Safavid Thought [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2017 This paper discusses "territorial identity as one of the components of Iranian identity"; therefore, the weight and position of the land in the intellectual system and the social existence of human on the one hand, and the role and importance of the land
ebrahim tobeyani, Mohsen Alviri
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The ‘Iran’ Curtain: the historiography of Abu’l-Khairid (Shaybanid) arts of the book and the ‘Bukhara School' [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2023 In treating illustrated Persian-language manuscript arts from the medieval and early-modern periods, dynasties have come to be associated with Iran and their art forms labelled ‘Persian’ and ‘Iranian’.
Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp
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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 645-655, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Among my interlocutors in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest city, were individuals who repeatedly claimed that some persons, philosophies, and ethical lives not only might be but actually were perfect (kāmel). The salavāt, a polyvalent blessing upon the Prophet and his descendants, evinces this.
Simon Theobald
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A Trip Down Memory Lane. Revisiting Persians National Identity in the Safavids Folktales
Traditiones, 2011 The rise of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736) in Persia has had a profound impact on the lives of Iranians. The Safavids established the first Iranian national government after Islam, a government that ubsequently helped Iranian identity to take new forms.
Mohammad Hanif, Mohsen Hanif
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