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Iran Under the Safavids

Iran Under the Safavids

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  • Date Published: October 2007
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521042512

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  • The importance of the Safavid period (1501–1736) 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 Shāh Ismā'il 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 Shāh 'Abbās I which brought the Safavid state to the height of its power and prosperity, and the reasons for its decline during the latter part of the seventeenth century and its eventual fall. As well as covering the political history of the period, the book includes chapters on the economic and social structure of the state, on intellectual and artistic life under the Safavids and on relations with Europe.

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    • Date Published: October 2007
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521042512
    • length: 288 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 16 mm
    • weight: 0.407kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    List of illustrations
    Map
    Acknowledgements
    1. The Lords of Ardabīl
    2. Theocratic state: the reign of Shāh Ismā'īl I (1501–1524)
    3. Internal dissensions and external foes: the Safavid state from 1524 to 1588
    4. The Safavid empire at the height of its power under Shāh 'Abbās the Great (1588–1629)
    5. Relations with the West during the Safavid period
    6. The flowering of the arts under the Safavids
    7. 'Isfahān is half the world' - Shāh 'Abbās's Isfahān
    8. The social and economic structure of the Safavid state
    9. Intellectual life under the Safavids
    10. Decline and fall of the Safavids
    Notes
    Index.

  • Author

    Roger Savory, University of Toronto

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