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Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires by Charles Melville; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgements 13 Contributors 15 Introduction 21 1. The Body Politic and the Rise of the Safavids 33 2. The Qazvin Period and the Idea of the Safavids 49 3. Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire 67 4. The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride 101 5. Safavid Town Planning 125 6. From Absolute Prince to Despot: The Political Representations of Safavid Iran in Seventeenth-Century France 153 7. The Idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as ‘The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era’ 177 8. Practising Philosophy, Imagining Iran in the Safavid Period 205 9. Popular Religiosity and Vernacular Turkic: A Qezelbash Catechism from Safavid Iran 231 10. ‘O Muhibbi! You’ve Lit Your Lamp with Khosrow’s Burning Passion’: Persian Poetry as Perceived by Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Authors 261 11. Commercial Relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe 287 12. ‘The World is an Oyster and Iran, the Pearl’: Representations of Iran in Safavid Persian Travel Literature 311 13. Local and Transregional Places in the Works of Safavid Men of Letters 329 14. Shi‘i Rulers,
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- Author
- Charles Melville;
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction