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Contents 8 Note on Transliteration 10 Acknowledgements 12 INTRODUCTION 14 Cycles of Persian Mytho-history and Abrahamic Prophecy: Locating "Formational" Safavid Iran 14 Working with Rhetoric and Letter-writing in Perso-Islamic History 19 Inshā and Munshīs: A Discursive Forum 24 The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Structure and Scope 29 1. IMPERIALIZING THE APOCALYPSE 1501-32 32 The Parousia (zuhūr) of Ismā ̀īl,1494-1514 33 Heralding Noah's Flood: Messianic and Mystical Innovations in the Safavid Chancellery 43 Recovery of Persian Bureaucratic Culture and the Imperializing of Epistolary Rhetoric, 1515-24 59 Early Years of Shāh Tahmāsp and the Persian-Turk Paradigm, 1524-32 71 2. COMPETING COSMOLOGIES, 1532-55 81 Invective Rhetoric: al-Karakī and Models of Shi'ite Apologetic Discourse 84 Qādī-yi Jahān Qazvīnī and the "Men of the Pen" 101 Mystical Impulses and the Safavid Inshā Tradition 108 3. SECOND REPENTANCE, 1556-76 117 Reorientation to Qazvīn and the East 117 Solomonic Tropes 133 Polychromatic Impulses: Abdī beg Shīrāzī and the Chancellery 150 4. REX REDUX 1576-98 158 Shāh Ismā'īl II's Challenge to the Hierocrats 158 The Emergence of a New Esprit de Corps under Khudādanda

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Colin P. Mitchell;

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